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House committee releases bipartisan FEMA overhaul bill By Amelia Davidson | 07/25/2025 06:42 AM EDT The measure comes at a fraught time for the agency as President Donald Trump weighs its future.
Exclusive: ‘A more vulnerable nation’: FEMA memos lay out risks of plan to cut $1B in disaster and security grants ...
It took 24 hours for FEMA search and rescue teams to arrive in Texas after state officials requested their help responding to the devastating flooding.
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders have introduced legislation in the U.S. House that could provide the most robust legislative reform of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ...
FEMA would become a cabinet-level agency under a bipartisan bill, reporting directly to the president. Streamlines disaster assistance and empowers states.
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency would report directly to the U.S. president instead of the Homeland Security secretary, under a bipartisan bill announced in the House of ...
The head of FEMA offered no guarantees about the agency’s survival during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. He also defended the Trump administration's response to deadly floods in Texas.