Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it ...

States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...

With record-breaking wildfires, floods and storms battering communities nationwide — and President Donald Trump pushing to ...

A federal judge issued a temporary order on Tuesday stopping the Trump administration from redirecting $4.5 billion in funds ...

The judge granted a preliminary injunction sought by 20 Democrat-led states while their lawsuit over the funding moves ahead.

With hurricane season still going strong, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says its disaster fund has run out of money. Traditionally, hurricane season runs from June 1 to November ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion in grant funding for communities and first ...

In July 2024, Dillon Taylor and I published the article: The Rise of the Disaster Diplomat: A New Era for Domestic Crisis Leadership, asserting that the nation’s emergency managers possess a similar ...

“As the senior advisor to the President on disasters and emergency management, and to the Secretary of Homeland Security, I do not believe it is in the best interest the American people to ...

The Robert T. Stafford Emergency Relief and Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 gave the President the authority to issue disaster declarations for a variety of events. These can range from widespread ...

Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...

“As the senior advisor to the President on disasters and emergency management, and to the Secretary of Homeland Security, I do not believe it is in the best interest the American people to ...