"Reform is good as long as it's holistic, but it's also got to be time-phased in over the next three years," said Brock Long.

A bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) that he says will improve the Department of Homeland Security’s capacity to ...

FEMA would retain all current responsibilities, including those under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Support Across Party Lines Rep. Donalds, a prominent ...

FEMA is in need of serious reform, and the goal of the FEMA Act of 2025 is to fix it. This bill does more than any recent reforms to cut through the bureaucracy, streamline programs, provide ...

House Republicans and Democrats sharply scrutinized the federal response to the Texas flooding disaster that killed at least 135 people.

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Greg Abbott calls a second special Texas legislative session focusing on a 19-item agenda from flood relief to education ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has landed on President Donald Trump’s radar as he considers the agency’s abolishment or a significant reform to its operations. But a bipartisan push ...