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Trump Walks Back Talk of Abolishing FEMA
After criticizing the agency for being ineffective for months, the Trump administration now plans to reform it to supplement ...
Trump administration rhetoric on FEMA moves toward reform rather than termination
Rhetoric from Trump administration officials appears to be shifting more toward reforming the Federal Emergency Management ...
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Trump Considers FEMA Reform, Not Abolition, Amid Texas Flood Crisis
U.S. President Donald Trump has no immediate plans to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), despite ...
Donald Trump Wants FEMA 'Remade,' Not Eradicated—DHS Secretary
The administration supported search and rescue operations in Kerr County, Texas, after at least 120 people died and dozens ...
Trump admin cut a program funding WNC flood resilience. North Carolina's AG is suing
North Carolina was one of 20 states that sued the Trump administration July 16 to return disaster mitigation funding. A ...
Trump’s FEMA proposals, feud with Newsom could devastate California’s disaster response
California has increased its discretionary reserves as a direct consequence of Trump’s ongoing threats to FEMA.
Trump visits Texas after floods, meets with families who lost loved ones
Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited Texas for an aerial tour of the sites of the catastrophic flooding, which killed ...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that ...
Texas flooding, and politics around it, underscore the challenges Trump faces in replacing FEMA
Noem said the rapid delivery of funds to Texas resembled the “state block grants” model Trump has promoted. It’s an idea that ...
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Most states couldn’t afford disaster recovery without FEMA: report
Cities may need to establish their own recovery and resilience funds because only a handful of states are prepared to absorb ...