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Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...
Trump has previously said that disaster relief should fall to the states and that he hopes to eliminate FEMA altogether.
Emergency management experts warned that suddenly shutting off the funding and resources FEMA provides to local and state ...
Hurricane season begins in earnest in August. The devastating floods in Texas earlier this summer underscored the importance of state and local readiness as the federal government rethinks its role in ...
New York’s senior senator on Wednesday blasted the Trump administration’s plan to cut security funding for New York City, ...
The ruling stops the federal government from spending the funds originally earmarked for FEMA's Building Resilient ...
In about one month, the nation will commemorate the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating disasters in American ...
One of the most experienced emergency response experts in the country, who lives in Maine, says the nation is becoming less prepared to respond to disasters.
States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...