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President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane ...
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s ...
President Trump said Tuesday that his administration wants to "wean" states off assistance from FEMA after this year's ...
One FEMA official described the strategic plan as the agency's "organizational backbone," saying, "Without it, there are just ...
The agency’s leader suggested he recently learned there was an annual hurricane season.
Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.
Photo Illustration: Xingpei Shen WASHINGTON—Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are scrapping a hurricane-response plan that its recently appointed leader, David Richardson ...
Despite the state's experience and expertise, Florida has historically has relied on tens of billions of recovery dollars provided by FEMA.
Until recently, Richardson had said his team was preparing an updated disaster plan for this hurricane season. But last week, CNN previously reported, Richardson told FEMA staff that the plan will ...
The president said states need to bear the costs of their own recovery and if a state's governor can't do so, "then maybe ...
Hurricane season is here, and FEMA doesn't have a disaster plan On May 15, The Wall Street Journal reported on video of a FEMA meeting it obtained. The video made it clear then that with two weeks ...