The president's comments brought immediate pushback. Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear called the elimination of FEMA a ...

President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Here's what to know.

Eliminating FEMA would severely weaken the nation’s ability to respond to large-scale emergencies,” warns a retired ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal ...

The president issued an executive order Friday launching a year-long review of the agency’s recent disaster responses.

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued ...

Ahead of a tour of two states struck by natural disasters, President Donald Trump criticized the disaster response agency as ...

Just because you don’t see somebody in a FEMA shirt walking on the streets the day after a disaster doesn’t mean FEMA is not ...

The agency was created in the late 1970s and is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by disasters nationwide.

Trump said the agency, which employs more than 20,000 people across the US, was "very bureaucratic" and "very slow." ...

Notably, Trump’s executive order on FEMA does not seek to eliminate the agency; Congress would need to act to do that. The ...