Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week ...
Advocates say evicting renters and taking away financial assistance will undermine progress toward bringing residents back to ...
Job cuts affect how quickly infrastructure is rebuilt, how soon businesses reopen and how efficiently insurance claims move ...
The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to remake the agency.
The Trump administration is abruptly cutting dozens of disaster response and recovery staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week, according to internal emails obtained by CNN and ...
In October 2025, after summer storms severely affected areas of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, approved Federal Emergency Management Assistance disaster relief aid for ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied three counties' requests for federal disaster assistance for areas in Kentucky affected by severe storms and tornadoes on May 16 and 17, 2025, ...
A year after Hurricane Helene killed more than 240 people across seven states, the town hall and the fire department in Canton, North Carolina are still operating out of temporary facilities. Some ...
When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. A year already marked by record-smashing heatwaves, ...
Regulators are proposing to restore the automatic emergency hours-of-service exemption from 14 days back to 30 days to ...