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A New York Times report found thousands of calls to FEMA went unanswered after the Department of Homeland Security laid off ...
As natural disasters like flooding, tornadoes and landslides piled up this spring, FEMA accumulated a backlog of disaster ...
Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz has called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be investigated over the ...
Some FEMA officials claim President Trump's cost-cutting policies are to blame for the delayed response to the disastrous ...
FEMA was ready to respond to this week's floods in Texas—but was delayed by administrative hurdles and approval processes that took 72 hours to resolve.
President Donald Trump bristled at questions critical of the government’s response to deadly flooding during a visit to Texas Friday, and praised the Federal Emergency Management Agency that he had ...
Rescue efforts began Friday, but FEMA did not deploy its network of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday.
As towns were submerged in rising waters, FEMA officials realized they couldn’t pre-position Urban Search and Rescue crews.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has called again for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ...
Trump admonished FEMA under the Biden administration, but stated that the federal agency has been turned around now that he is in power.
That warning proved prescient. Officials said that compared to the billions typically required for disaster response, $100,000 is essentially “pennies.” Yet FEMA was forced to seek Noem’s direct ...