FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated around the clock as the US is battered by year-round disasters ranging from wildfires to spring thunderstorms producing biblical amounts of hail.
President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap the emergency agency FEMA.The Federal Emergency Management Agency is tasked with responding to disasters across the US.Trump's comments came during a national disaster recovery tour that saw him visit Los Angeles and North Carolina.
President Donald Trump said that his administration will step in and assist North Carolina as it recovers from Hurricane Helene months after the storm.
Trump complained that long permitting processes and late arrival from FEMA agents have delayed homeowners from being able to start rebuilding.
President Donald Trump on Friday halted Democratic California Rep. Brad Sherman’s defense of using the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
More than a dozen Democratic senators signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), expressing a desire to work with the GOP on immigration reform
President Donald Trump suggested he might eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday during a trip to tour damage from Hurricane Helene flooding in North Carolina, a state he’s said “has been abandoned by the Democrats.
Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”
Hosts of MSNBC’s flagship weekend show mocked MAGA voters in red states affected by a spate of recent storms as President Donald Trump floated the possibility of scrapping federal support for states altogether.
Trump has ended his predecessor's hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, lifting a pressure point that had been meant to reduce civilian casualties during the U.S. ally's war with Hamas in Gaza that is now halted by a tenuous ceasefire.
Donald Trump has been in office for five days, and yet he has already imposed his will on Washington with ruthless speed and efficiency, showing that even his most radical campaign promises were far from just bluster.