President Trump recently floated the idea of getting rid of FEMA. It would take an act of Congress to make that happen.

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Friday focused on emergency response, one which creates a task force to ...

The agency was created in the late 1970s and is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by disasters nationwide.

Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done ...

President Trump can reform or rebuild FEMA into the world-class emergency management agency that it can, and must, be. On ...

Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 22, Trump suggested that FEMA would ...

Trump ran on making America a meritocracy. Now, a man whose brain was partially eaten by a worm is likely to decide key ...

Misusing emergency powers will open the door to further such abuses by this president—or a future one, writes Elizabeth ...

World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed COVID-19 -- a public ...

That means Congress would not only have to act to give Trump the ability to dissolve agencies in the first place, but it’d also have to approve any proposed Trump plan to eliminate FEMA.

President Trump’s plan to shutter the Federal Emergency Management Agency could save the federal government billions but will ...