Explainer: What is FEMA, US emergency agency under fire from Trump?
President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whose resources are strained following multiple weather-related disasters and which is burdened by past failures in handling massive storms.
How FEMA works and why Trump is threatening to kill it
Even in recent natural disasters, from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico to rebuilding in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene, FEMA has been criticized by both Trump and Brown for being unable ...
Explainer-What is FEMA, US emergency agency under fire from Trump?
FEMA FAILURES The agency has been criticized for emergency responses to hurricanes that fell short, including Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. Residents accused then-President Trump of ...
What does FEMA do? What to know after Trump considers 'getting rid' of agency
President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Here's what to know.
FEMA Closer to Getting Wiped Out After Trump Emergency Review Order
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order which could lead to the eradication of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The order on Sunday night demanded a task force to investigate the agency and find solutions that will transform it.
Trump takes aim at FEMA in new executive order
The executive order begins the process of a review of the agency's effectiveness by establishing a 20-member task force
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Puerto Rico on tenterhooks over Donald Trump’s idea of eliminating FEMA: “It would be another disaster”
While making the caveat that this is extremely premature, mayors and the former executive director of the Central Office of Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3), Manuel Laboy ...
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Trump signs executive order calling for FEMA task force to probe agency
Only two days after visiting natural disaster-torn areas, including North Carolina, and broaching the idea of “getting rid of ...
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Everyone agrees FEMA needs to change. The question is how
Long oversaw FEMA during 2017, the costliest disaster year in US history. Multiple major hurricanes walloped the country, including Maria, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico, and ...
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Atlanta woman convicted of $156M FEMA fraud after Hurricane Maria
Tiffany Brown, 45, of Atlanta, was convicted on Jan. 17 of defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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FEMA awards $122M to Forensic Psychiatry Hospital in Ponce
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has obligated more than $122 million to the Mental Health and Anti-addiction ...
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Jury finds former government contractor guilty of defrauding FEMA and Georgia litigation company
She was awarded a nearly $156 million contract to give "self-heating meals to the residents of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria." ...
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DOE loan office commits $1.2B to clean energy projects in Puerto Rico
The Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office has committed $1.2 billion for clean energy projects aimed at reducing Puerto ...
Opinion
Trump needs to transform FEMA, not shut it down
Rather than dismantling FEMA, we need to reimagine it as an elite federal agency capable of managing the increasingly complex and severe disasters of a polycrisis age.