Political tensions and questions swirling around the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) promise to be a key test for ...

Western North Carolina's Congressman, U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, has been asked by President Trump to help overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thanks to his appointment to a newly created ...

President Trump recently floated the idea of getting rid of FEMA. It would take an act of Congress to make that happen.

FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest ...

Michael Brown said that Congress should give the disaster relief agency back its “independent agency status,” allowing it ...

Although President Donald Trump has floated eliminating FEMA with an executive order, he does not have unilateral authority, ...

FEMA was absorbed by DHS in 2003, prompting criticism that its highly bureaucratic nature rendered the agency ineffective in addressing natural disasters.

From natural disasters to homeland security, FEMA’s development tells the story of resilience, adaptation and innovation in ...

In January, Brown appeared on NewsNation to say it was “a mistake” to put FEMA under the umbrella of DHS. “The smartest thing they could do is to pull FEMA out, give it back its ...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, vowed to overhaul FEMA's disaster response ...

While DHS employees largely work in-person, the acting homeland security secretary called remote work rates at some components "unacceptable." ...

FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security ... Mario Tama/Getty Images The think tank proposed moving the agency out of DHS and privatizing some of its programs, including the National ...