FEMA overhaul plan would slash staff, rebrand agency, and shift more disaster-response responsibility to states, CNN reports.

A task force created by President Donald Trump plans to recommend the most sweeping overhaul of FEMA in decades, dramatically ...

White House officials abruptly postponed the final meeting of a Trump-created task force charged with shaping the future of ...

Amid growing concerns over bureaucratic inefficiency and the increasing frequency of natural disasters, a bipartisan pair of Florida lawmakers has introduced legislation to remove the Federal ...

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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Trump administration is considering big changes to how FEMA operates. The proposal has sparked questions about what it could mean for disaster response. From Hurricane to ...

U.S. Reps. Byron Donalds and Jared Moskowitz of Florida have a plan to reform federal emergency management and improve the efficiency of federal emergency response efforts. They would remove the ...

When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4 Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic hurdles ...

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