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Donald Trump wants FEMA "remade," not eradicated—DHS Secretary
The administration supported search and rescue operations in Kerr County, Texas, after at least 120 people died and dozens ...
The Trump Administration Is Violating the First Rule of Disasters
In the days since the Texas flash-flood disaster, the Department of Homeland Security has had a stock response to questions ...
Trump Administration Backs Off Plans to Abolish FEMA: Report
President Trump on Friday surveyed the damage from the catastrophic floods in Texas and sought to reassure residents that his administration is doing everything it can to help. “The first lady and I ...
FEMA’s Texas-sized test
Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) participated in the first meeting of a new ...
President Trump plans to tour Texas flood damage as the scope of the disaster tests his pledge to shutter FEMA
President Donald Trump is visiting Texas on Friday to assess catastrophic flooding that has killed at least 120 people.
Supreme Court clears way for Trump to pursue mass federal layoffs
At Trump's direction, the administration has come up with plans to reduce staff at the US Departments of Agriculture, ...
Sen. Peter Welch says "we have to have FEMA" amid Trump's push to kill it
As Texas and New Mexico reel from flash flooding, Democratic Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont is proposing changes to the federal ...