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Proposed legislation to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which goes by the same acronym, the Fixing ...
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 ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a ...
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 ...
FEMA officials denounced all allegations as misinformation. Trump’s statement on his vision for the agency’s future came during a discussion about what might be included in legislation pushing ...
WASHINGTON - Meeting notes, released Tuesday by a union representative for federal emergency workers, stated that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told employees that many changes ...
FEMA is often a punching bag following disasters. Critics say the help is too slow to arrive, has too much red tape, and often repairs are already done or have to be done before it can help.
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 ...