President Donald Trump’s call to dissolve the Federal Emergency Management Agency would upend the emergency management paradigm and make future responses more difficult, experts say. Some of the states likely to be hit hardest by such a shift would be red states that support Trump.

Rep. Dale Strong (R-Ala.) outlined several possible ideas for overhauling the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during a House hearing on Tuesday. Strong, the chair of the emergency

Local news outlets across the country are amplifying the voices of lawmakers and emergency management experts who have serious concerns about what gutting the Federal Emergency Management Agency — as President Donald Trump has suggested — would look like for extreme weather victims and vulnerable communities that by and large voted for him.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Thursday to unfreeze federal money that has remained withheld from Colorado and other states despite previous court rulings requiring the funding

A former senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency who was abruptly fired three weeks ago during a political blowup over a hotel program for migrants sued the government on Tuesday for unlawful termination.

Speaking to a joint session of Congress in early March 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that his administration identified $59 million in federal funding that had been spent on New York City hotel rooms to house immigrants living in the country illegally. Elon Musk, an adviser to Trump, made the same claim in the past, as well.

AS THE UNITED STATES' GO-TO agency when things go wrong ... And even some of Trump's strongest supporters in Congress have spoken against eliminating the agency. "FEMA can't go away," Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana said according to Politico.

A federal judge is weighing whether to compel the Trump administration to unfreeze millions of dollars in previously allocated FEMA funds.

Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered Democratic lawmaker Al Green removed from the House chamber during President Donald Trump's address to Congress, saying he violated decorum by standing during the speech.