Proposed FEMA reform would speed up disaster funding, provide technical assistance to small towns, and protect pre-disaster ...

A 2023 Government Accountability Office report indicated that FEMA only had 5,000 full-time staff members, as well as a group of reservists and emergency-response workers who could be called up to ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied reports suggesting the deployment of resources to Texas was delayed because of ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is tightening her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every contract and grant over $100,000 must now cross her desk for approval, according ...

Prior to leading the federal emergency response, Fugate was the emergency director in Florida. " Congress never intended for FEMA to supplant insurance," he said. Speed and accountability ...

The Government Accountability Office said staffing levels and other workforce issues at the Federal Emergency Management Agency “has limited its capacity to provide effective disaster assistance.” ...

FEMA said it's "ready to support" Florida as a hurricane approaches the state, which is still reeling from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's DEI policies led to unqualified personnel undermining Puerto Rico's recovery from Hurricane Maria.

Is the response to Hurricane Helene going poorly? What is FEMA actually supposed to do? A disaster response expert weighs in.

The chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to detail what it did to prepare for Hurricane Helene after it became clear there would be ...