Political tensions and questions swirling around the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) promise to be a key test for ...

President Trump recently floated the idea of getting rid of FEMA. It would take an act of Congress to make that happen.

Western North Carolina's Congressman, U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, has been asked by President Trump to help overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thanks to his appointment to a newly created ...

FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest ...

From natural disasters to homeland security, FEMA’s development tells the story of resilience, adaptation and innovation in ...

FEMA was absorbed by DHS in 2003, prompting criticism that its highly bureaucratic nature rendered the agency ineffective in addressing natural disasters.

In January, Brown appeared on NewsNation to say it was “a mistake” to put FEMA under the umbrella of DHS. “The smartest thing they could do is to pull FEMA out, give it back its ...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, vowed to overhaul FEMA's disaster response ...

The agency was created in the late 1970s and is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by disasters nationwide.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is a federal agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Trump would need Congress to pass a law either eliminating FEMA or giving ...