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.
Although President Donald Trump has floated eliminating FEMA with an executive order, he does not have unilateral authority, according to federal law.
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.”
Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 22, Trump suggested that FEMA would be facing a reckoning.
A one-time, $770 payment is available immediately for victims of the California wildfires as part of FEMA's Critical Needs Assistance program.
President Donald Trump said on Friday he would like to get rid of the main federal agency that responds to natural disasters.
President Donald Trump signed a record number of executive orders during his first week back at the White House.
FEMA is tasked with helping states and communities ... massive year-end appropriations bill signed into law by President Joe Biden. But California fire damages are expected to total among the ...
He may not be the president anymore, but Joe Biden is still finding ways to shock his successor. President Donald Trump admitted as much after he visited the still-ravaged Tar Heel state on Friday, according to WCNC-TV.
During an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity Wednesday night, Trump was in the middle of complaining about Biden’s last-minute pardons for his family members and Trump critics when the president suggested that his predecessor could use the same protections.
President Donald Trump already signed a flurry of executive orders aimed to reshape U.S. policy on trade, immigration and citizenship, federal hiring and more.