The last quarter of 2024 brought unimaginable damage to Georgia from tropical storm Debby and Hurricane Helene. Political leaders, local emergency managers and the public all have a different understanding of what FEMA does.

Colorado and a coalition of other states are again asking a judge to require the Trump administration to unfreeze funding that the court had previously ordered to be unlocked.

The hearing comes as Trump has cast uncertainty on plans for federal emergency management. During his first week in office, Trump said “FEMA will go away” and suggested that states should have full control over disaster recovery, using federal money disbursed through the White House.

I don't like this place, so I'm going to gut it,’" the whistleblower told HuffPost. "It's just so infuriating."

Some Republican lawmakers are defending the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as President Donald Trump's administration moves to fire hundreds of the agency's employees. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email on Friday.

William Tong joined 22 other state AGs in filing a second motion for enforcement in their lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s freeze of federal funding.

New York City sued the Trump administration on Friday for clawing back $80.5 million of grants intended to cover part of the city's cost of housing migrants.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending federal benefits ... the economic contributions of undocumented workers. Meanwhile, since 2021, FEMA has allocated over $1 billion to support state and local governments, as well as nonprofits ...

President Trump signed an executive order that looks to federal forest management following the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.