FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated around the clock as the US is battered by year-round disasters ranging from wildfires to spring thunderstorms producing biblical amounts of hail.

In North Carolina Friday, President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order aimed at what he said would address problems inherent to FEMA.

President Trump told hurricane survivors in North Carolina Friday that he may be “getting rid of FEMA” — while saying he would end the “betrayal and neglect” of

Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”

FEMA is tasked with helping states and communities ... massive year-end appropriations bill signed into law by President Joe Biden. But California fire damages are expected to total among the ...

President Donald Trump said on Friday he would like to get rid of the main federal agency that responds to natural disasters.

If you’re impacted by the California wildfires, the FEMA checks can help cover the cost of essential items like water, formula, gas and meds.

A one-time, $770 payment is available immediately for victims of the California wildfires as part of FEMA's Critical Needs Assistance program.

President Donald Trump suggested he might eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday during a trip to tour damage from Hurricane Helene flooding in North Carolina, a state he’s said “has been abandoned by the Democrats.

The Senate will vote today on John Ratcliffe's nomination to serve as director of the CIA. If senators approve his nomination, he will be the second member of Trump's team to be confirmed after Marco Rubio was sworn in as secretary of state earlier this week.

FLETCHER, N.C. — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the nation's central organization for responding to disasters.