Trump’s plan to eliminate FEMA is a very bad idea
Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 22, Trump suggested that FEMA would ...
Trump claims FEMA is getting ‘in the way’ and pitches abolishing it during first interview since return to White House
Trump claims FEMA is getting ‘in the way’ and pitches abolishing it during first interview since return to White House - ...
Washington Examiner4d
Trump grants FEMA more power to combat LA wildfires after threatening to curtail agency
These agencies have 15 days to report back to the White House. Under the direction of FEMA, these federal agencies are charged with expediting housing relief for survivors, expediting bulk ...
White House Rescinds Order Freezing Federal Grants After Widespread Confusion
Officials said the decision to halt loans and grants was necessary to ensure spending complies with recent executive orders.
Fox News8d
Trump warns FEMA faces a reckoning after Biden admin: 'Not done their job'
President Donald Trump warned late Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ... with Fox News' Sean Hannity, his first White House interview since his inauguration.
Washington Examiner6d
Trump lambasts FEMA response to LA fires: ‘Incompetently run’
President Donald Trump blasted the Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s response to the fires ravaging California. During a tense press conference with local officials, Trump repeatedly ...
President Trump sounds the same. His White House — so far — couldn’t be more different
Donald Trump 2.0 is, so far, very much the same as his first go around. But eight years after he was last sworn into office, ...
Courthouse News Service2d
White House rescinds federal aid freeze shortly before emergency court hearing: reports
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order commuting sentences for people convicted of Jan. 6 offenses in the Oval Office of the White House ... a court order to stop its enforcement. An ...
Trump to tap healthcare lobbyist Dempsey for White House budget job, FT reports
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to tap health industry lobbyist Don Dempsey for a top White House budget job, the ...
Trump administration to hold first White House press conference with Karoline Leavitt
The Trump administration is holding its first White House press conference on Tuesday, with newly minted press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Opinion
Trump needs to transform FEMA, not shut it down
Rather than dismantling FEMA, we need to reimagine it as an elite federal agency capable of managing the increasingly complex and severe disasters of a polycrisis age.