The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a ...

Proposed legislation to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which goes by the same acronym, the Fixing ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, in Washington is photographed on October 8, 2024 in Washington, DC. The agency faces changes after new legislation passed the House of ...

Both parties have eyed big changes to FEMA for years now, with the aim of streamlining disaster assistance. The “Fixing ...

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The legislation also seeks to eliminate FEMA’s backlog of 800 open disaster declarations, some of which date back decades. Changes to the way FEMA doles out funding would require state and local ...

Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) agrees that FEMA needs changes. He’s sponsoring legislation that would address efficiency issues and cut red tape. “We have to reform FEMA. The long-term recovery, whether ...

It just slows down the entire response and delays the recovery process from starting,” the previous FEMA chief said.

While touring disaster areas in North Carolina and California on Jan. 24, 2025, President Donald Trump said he was considering getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). “I ...