Trump wants states to handle disasters without FEMA. They say they can't.
State and local emergency managers are facing a serious question in the wake of President Donald Trump's first few weeks in ...
Crashes and Disasters
Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere. About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency ...
Republicans from disaster-prone areas back Trump’s push to overhaul FEMA
Republican lawmakers, including those from disaster-prone areas, are backing President Trump’s calls to overhaul the Federal ...
FEMA Is a Disaster. Trump Is Right To Demand Changes.
The president's comments brought immediate pushback. Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear called the elimination of FEMA a ...
Disaster responders say ending FEMA would move tasks and costs to states, local governments
President Donald Trump’s call to possibly eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency has Nebraska officials waiting ...
Opinion
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Editorial: Federal emergency management could use reform, not elimination
During a Friday tour of communities in western North Carolina and neighborhoods in Los Angeles devastated by natural disasters, President Donald Trump told victims, state officials and assembled media ...
Brad Sherman: Mr. President, please don’t abolish FEMA
Your job is to ensure that the agencies that make up the executive branch are managed effectively, rather than give up and abolish them.
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Trump Moves to Abolish FEMA, Shift Disaster Response to States
President Trump, who calls FEMA “not good,” has issued an executive order and established a commission to look at ending the agency. He favors having states respond to their own disasters, but they ...
Trump wants to get rid of FEMA. The future of disaster relief would be grim
We’re just praying we don’t get so much as a bad rain in the next four years.’ In an executive order Monday, President Donald ...