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Chantal caused catastrophic flooding and six deaths in central North Carolina. Orange County leaders said the cost of repairs ...
Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local leaders ...
Trump Blames Migrants, Not the Climate Crisis, for FEMA Funding Issues While the nation’s politicians decide whether or not to act, undocumented migrants will likely make up a large percentage ...
The program, established by a 2000 law, provides grants for a variety of disaster mitigation efforts, including levees to ...
A coalition of 20 state attorneys general claims President Trump illegally terminated FEMA's pre-disaster mitigation program.
The lawsuit was filed after over 60 North Carolina entities lost funding after the Building Resilient Infrastructure and ...
FEMA canceled some projects already in the works and refused to approve new ones despite funding from Congress.
While recently-criticized FEMA funds used for migrant issues is formally partitioned from disaster relief (DRF), Roy said COVID-19 response-related funding falls in the disaster relief pot.
Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...
Misinformation about FEMA funding being sent to support migrants caught on in particular. Since 2019, during Donald Trump’s first term, ... among other issues.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is implementing immediate needs funding for a recent slate of disasters — and putting the pressure on Congress to approve a disaster supplemental as their ...
Petersburg officials will address the city's flooding emergency and decades-old Appomattox River issues at a Thursday press ...