Wasteful FEMA Spending Topped $9 Billion During the Pandemic
It's been nearly five years, and the total cost of wasteful COVID-era spending is still being realized. A recent Department ...
Is FEMA Running Out of Money Amid Los Angeles Fires? What We Know
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has "no money" as several wildfires have ravaged the Los Angeles area. However, FEMA said it has more than ...
Everyone agrees FEMA needs to change. The question is how
FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest ...
JD Vance blasts ‘broken’ FEMA for ‘holding up’ billions in hurricane relief: ‘Not doing the American people’s will’
At least $4 billion is earmarked for hurricane response in Virginia but only $47 million has been distributed so far, the ...
FEMA sent to Carolina with funds diverted from ‘illegals’? No, that’s satire | Fact check
On Jan. 24, President Donald Trump visited communities in North Carolina devastated by severe flooding after Hurricane Helene smashed the southeastern U.S. in late September 2024. The death toll from ...
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How To Fix FEMA: Climate Advocates, States Have Ideas
Congress could allocate more FEMA funding each year through regular appropriations, so the agency doesn’t run out of money as it has. “When FEMA runs out of money, they begin taking care of ...
The Independent12d
Trump calls for shutting down FEMA even as red states collect top funds
And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting ... collected the most funds from 2015 to August 2024 from FEMA’s Individuals and Households ...
Explainer-What Is FEMA, US Emergency Agency Under Fire From Trump?
FILE PHOTO: A search dog and handler from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Urban Search and Rescue team combs a burned ...
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How FEMA works and why Trump is threatening to kill it
"FEMA has turned out to be a disaster," Trump said on Friday ... In December, Congress approved $29 billion for the agency to fund relief efforts. FEMA officials told Reuters the agency is ...