NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: As the Sept. 30 government funding deadline looms, the Trump administration is warning that millions of Americans could lose flood insurance coverage if Democrats refuse to back a House-passed spending bill that also extends the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The White House supports the continuing…
“WE HAVE THE BODY BAGS READY.” Though it was more than 25 years ago, I still feel the chill that ran through my body in a conference room in the wetlands of Northern California. I was a graduate student on a multi-university, interdisciplinary wetland restoration project team. We, a group of scientists from the south…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order to establish a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), just days after saying he was considering ‘getting rid of’ the central organisation which responds to disasters, even calling it a ‘very big disappointment.’ FILE PHOTO: Swannanoa resident Lucy Bickers, who received assistance…
US President Donald Trump on Friday toured disaster-stricken areas in North Carolina and California, criticising the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and considering “getting rid of” it. In North Carolina, still reeling months after Hurricane Helene devastated the state, Trump floated the idea of eliminating FEMA altogether. He proposed channelling federal disaster funds directly to…
President Donald Trump has questioned the future of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but potential cuts to FEMA may hit residents of three red states the hardest. “FEMA is going to be a whole big discussion very shortly because I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” Trump said during an interview…
Good morning, President Donald Trump’s sweeping changes to the federal workforce could mean taxpayers will have to wait longer for their refunds this year. Trump signed two executive orders this week that instituted a return-to-office mandate for federal employees, and a hiring freeze for most of the government. That could have immediate consequences for the…
In his first interview since returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated the idea of ending federal disaster relief and leaving states to “take care of their own problems”. US President Donald Trump said that FEMA will become a very big discussion shortly. (Reuters) Speaking to Fox News, Donald Trump…
More than 80% of Floridians don’t have flood insurance and FEMA was unprepared for the deluge of assistance calls after Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida on October 9, according to agency data. CBS News reported that at least 24 people died in the wake of the hurricane. Following an October 11 emergency…