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As hurricane season nears, DeSantis allays concern about federal disaster agency: ‘We’ve never relied on FEMA’
Amid signs of turmoil at the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the Atlantic hurricane season is about to begin, Gov. Ron ...
Florida Democrat: FEMA ‘is going to fail this summer’
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) warned Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is ill prepared for ...
DHS inserts staffers at FEMA in major shakeup before hurricane season
The homeland security officials will replace several longtime FEMA leaders, marking an inflection point in the Trump ...
Moskowitz, expert in disaster management, warns FEMA ‘is going to fail’ during hurricane season
Congressman Jared Moskowitz, a former Florida emergency management director and executive at a disaster response company, ...
As FEMA is in upheaval entering hurricane season, Houston emergency leaders say they have a plan
Federal funding and aid may be uncertain, but emergency management officials in the Houston region say they are prepared for ...
FEMA senior officials exit en masse as Trump targets agency
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the departure of 16 senior executives on Wednesday, a significant ...
FEMA makes late push to bolster hurricane preparedness, but effort may be too little, too late, officials say
Amid growing concerns within the Federal Emergency Management Agency that internal turmoil has left it unprepared for the ...
FEMA rescinds strategic plan less than 2 weeks before hurricane season
One FEMA official described the strategic plan as the agency's "organizational backbone," saying, "Without it, there are just ...
Hurricane season is here. How will Trump's FEMA respond?
When disaster strikes, FEMA is there. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has led America's response to storms, wildfires ...
FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season
Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another ...
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Trump task force told to eliminate FEMA and start over. What might that mean for Louisiana?
FEMA was established in 1979 at the insistence of Southern governors who wanted a more coordinated federal relief effort.
White House: FEMA leadership purge won’t impact hurricane preparedness
White House officials maintain the recent purge of senior Federal Emergency Management Agency officials won't impact the nation's hurricane preparedness.