Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders have introduced legislation in the U.S. House that could provide the most robust legislative reform of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ...

The same can happen for cities too. After major flooding in 2019, the small river city of Grafton, Illinois, didn’t see any money from FEMA until 2022. The legislation also seeks to eliminate FEMA’s ...

In about one month, the nation will commemorate the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating disasters in American ...

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

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), the lead Republican author on legislation in the upper chamber to elevate FEMA to Cabinet-level status, sees the agency as the heart of disaster management that brings ...

Sean Plankey, the nominee for CISA director, said he'd "allow the operators to operate" at the cyber agency, while focusing on the agency's core missions.

Rhetoric from Trump administration officials appears to be shifting more toward reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), rather than axing it entirely. While the shift has been ...

Emergency management experts say the president can’t get rid of FEMA’s core responsibilities, which are dictated by the Stafford Act of 1988.

The Disaster Recovery Reform Act allocates 15% of disaster payouts, about 6% of FEMA’s budget, to state resilience efforts, while FEMA wastes 38% of its budget on overhead.

Congress should significantly reduce FEMA’s budget and amend the Stafford Act to clearly define and limit FEMA’s role in assisting states, which would help prevent FEMA from depleting its ...

A House committee is also working on bipartisan changes to the disaster agency. Sen. Peter Welch introduced legislation Thursday to reform federal disaster management with an eye toward more local ...