More than three years after Hurricane Ida devastated south Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency this month finally signed off on the first tranche of home elevation disaster grants for

FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated around the clock as the US is battered by year-round disasters ranging from wildfires to spring thunderstorms producing biblical amounts of hail.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whose resources are strained following multiple weather-related disasters and which is burdened by past failures in handling massive storms.

About 40 people gathered at Pack Square Plaza downtown at Jan. 24 to demand an extension of FEMA's Transitional Sheltering Assistance program.

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued existence was vital to the country's disaster response efforts, after President Donald Trump said he wanted to overhaul or scrap it.

Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”

FNC's Shannon Bream hosts Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, WSJ White House reporter Amy Linskey, Richard Fowler from Forbes, and law professor Horace Cooper, to discuss President Trump's plans to reform FEMA,

President Donald Trump suggested he might eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday during a trip to tour damage from Hurricane Helene flooding in North Carolina, a state he’s said “has been abandoned by the Democrats.

President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whose resources are strained following multiple weather-related disasters and which is burdened by past failures in handling massive storms.

Alabama may be negatively impacted if President Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to either eliminate or overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, CBS’s Margaret Brennan told Vice President JD Vance in an interview on “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Trump’s controversial pick to serve as Health and Human Services secretary — will face a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy will sit before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee the following day.