White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says FEMA is taking hurricane season "seriously" following media reports about alleged remarks by its acting administrator.

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of ...

President Donald Trump approved millions of dollars in assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Virginia, ...

The remark was made during a briefing by David Richardson, who has led FEMA since early May. The U.S. hurricane season ...

White House addresses FEMA acting director's 'jokes' about hurricane season. 1w. Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Richardson told staff in an all-hands meeting that he was ...

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is calling on the White House and the Department of Defense (DOD) to hold an emergency ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that FEMA chief Cameron Hamilton's comments before Congress cost him his job.

White House officials maintain the recent purge of senior Federal Emergency Management Agency officials won’t impact the nation’s hurricane preparedness.. FEMA announced Wednesday that 16 ...

The White House on Friday called "absolutely false" former President Donald Trump's claim the Federal Emergency Management Agency has given so much money to cities to deal with the influx of ...

Trump's comments were among the most direct to date indicating his intention to significantly downsize if not outright ...

Typically in presidential administrations, including Trump’s first, FEMA advises the White House on which disasters warrant federal assistance.

The White House has repeatedly stressed that the president has sole authority to approve or deny disaster declaration requests after catastrophic storms, telling FEMA that Trump does not have to ...