Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she wants President Trump to “get rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as it exists today. Noem joined CNN’s “State of the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said Sunday that she would recommend to President Donald Trump that he “get rid of FEMA the way it exists today” and allow local officials to have ...

“I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today,” Noem said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go ...

Trump has called FEMA slow and too bureaucratic, suggesting state governments should instead solely take over helping communities recover from disasters. And Texas is a prime example of a state ...

But the chief of the National Emergency Management Association, which oversees state emergency response across the entire country, told Forbes that factoring out FEMA is not the answer.

Cameron Hamilton, who took over Jan. 22 as acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has embraced false Republican narratives that FEMA ... Chip Roy (R-Texas), who ...

When four tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Milton tore through Palm Beach County last October, FEMA arrived shortly thereafter ... Louisiana and Texas rely so heavily upon the agency.

Mary Ellen Klas is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former capital bureau chief for the Miami Herald, she has covered politics and government for more than three decades.

Authorities are warning community members to watch out for insurance and FEMA-related scams after the Eaton and Palisades fires devastated parts of the Los Angeles area. The word of caution came ...

Since 2011, more than $68.2 billion in FEMA aid has been spent on disasters ... Those are in Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia. Disaster aid and ...

President Donald Trump and a conservative think tank have floated the possibility of shifting disaster response to the states, including eliminating FEMA or curtailing federal handouts.