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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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While President Donald Trump wants to gut the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are seeking to elevate FEMA to a Cabinet-level agency. FEMA is currently ...

“The FEMA Independence Act,” sponsored by Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D) and co-sponsored with his state colleague Rep. Byron Donalds (R), would break FEMA out of DHS and establish a cabinet ...

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 ...

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

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