The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a ...

Both parties have eyed big changes to FEMA for years now, with the aim of streamlining disaster assistance. The “Fixing ...

After catastrophic flash flooding devastated parts of Texas earlier this month leaving more than 100 people dead, lawmakers ...

Discover how the FEMA Act of 2025 impacts road construction after disasters. Learn why resilient road design now plays a ...

FEMA Faces Changes Amid California Wildfires. Story by Theo Burman • 2mo. T he Federal Emergency Management Agency ... The legislation also calls on the FEMA Administrator, ...

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib introduced legislation Friday that would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help ...

WASHINGTON - Meeting notes, released Tuesday by a union representative for federal emergency workers, stated that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told employees that many changes ...

The legislation also seeks to eliminate FEMA’s backlog of 800 open disaster declarations, some of which date back decades. Changes to the way FEMA doles out funding would require state and local ...

The legislation moving through Congress would require FEMA to reopen cases going back several years. For now, though, heirs’ property owners who lost homes to other recent disasters will remain ...