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What the Texas floods prove about fixing FEMA
President Donald Trump entered his second term talking about eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Then Texas’s Guadalupe River flooded, killing more than 130 Americans. Now, Trump’s team is scrambling to insist that its changes at FEMA did not hinder the federal response.
A 2023 Government Accountability Office report indicated that FEMA only had 5,000 full-time staff members, as well as a group of reservists and emergency-response workers who could be called up ...
Prior to leading the federal emergency response, Fugate was the emergency director in Florida. " Congress never intended for FEMA to supplant insurance," he said. Speed and accountability ...
The Government Accountability Office said staffing levels and other workforce issues at the Federal Emergency Management Agency “has limited its capacity to provide effective disaster assistance ...
FEMA said it's "ready to support" Florida as a hurricane approaches the state, which is still reeling from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene.
The chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to detail what it did to prepare for Hurricane Helene after it became clear there would be ...
Is the response to Hurricane Helene going poorly? What is FEMA actually supposed to do? A disaster response expert weighs in.
Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton has not been an emergency manager, prompting an inquiry by the Government Accountability Office.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has called on the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Deanne Criswell, to resign as the government body continues to face ...
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