Trump Administration Is Rolling Out a New Way to Shrink FEMA’s Role May 30, 2025 By Zahra Hirji When a series of deadly storms and tornadoes pummeled Arkansas in mid-March, downing power lines and tearing up homes, Governor...
FEMA Senior Officials Exit as Trump Targets Agency May 22, 2025 By Nathan Layne and Ted Hesson The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the departure of 16 senior executives on Wednesday, a significant shakeup of its...
FEMA Chief Says Agency Will Raise State Burden for Disasters to 50% May 15, 2025 By Leah Douglas and Nathan Layne David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Thursday that states would in the future...
Acting FEMA Chief Is Ousted After Less Than 4 Months May 8, 2025 By Chad Hemenway Less than a month before the start of hurricane season, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has...
A Look at the $100B Disaster Relief in the Government Spending Bill December 27, 2024 By Rebecca Santana and Travis Loller Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid designed to address extensive damage caused by disasters after this...
Biden Requests Funds to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge November 21, 2024 By Lea Skene President Joe Biden’s pending request for nearly $100 billion in emergency disaster aid includes money to rebuild Baltimore’s Francis Scott...
Virginia Seeks $4.4 Billion Additional Federal Aid for Hurricane Helene Recovery November 20, 2024 Citing the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene in southwest Virginia, Governor Glenn Youngkin submitted a request to President Joseph Biden,...
Biden Approves Disaster Declaration for Vermont for Late July Flooding September 30, 2024 President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the severe flooding that hit northeastern Vermont in late July....
Hurricanes Get the Headlines But Inland Flooding Tops the Disaster List July 25, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people...
Disaster Aid Approved for April Snowstorm’s Millions in Damages in Maine May 30, 2024 By Patrick Whittle A powerful late-season snowstorm that caused millions of dollars in damage in Maine was a major disaster, the federal government...