The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued ...

Ahead of a tour of two states struck by natural disasters, President Donald Trump criticized the disaster response agency as ...

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

Trump said the agency, which employs more than 20,000 people across the US, was "very bureaucratic" and "very slow." ...

Notably, Trump’s executive order on FEMA does not seek to eliminate the agency; Congress would need to act to do that. The ...

Trump suggested some states were more deserving of aid than others, and that the feds could step out of relief role ...

President Donald Trump said that his administration will step in and assist North Carolina as it recovers from Hurricane ...

Just because you don’t see somebody in a FEMA shirt walking on the streets the day after a disaster doesn’t mean FEMA is not ...

President Trump on Wednesday was sharply critical of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), suggesting at one point ...

President Trump said today that he may “get rid” of FEMA while visiting areas of North Carolina devastated by Hurricane ...

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

Donald Trump revealed plans to either reform or ‘get rid of’ FEMA. Learn more about the government agency and its purpose.