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Uncertainty is hanging over this year’s hurricane season as meteorologists predict “above-normal” activity and the Trump ...
According to the NHC, the disturbance is identifiable as a tropical wave carrying clusters of disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the open Atlantic.
FEMA’s future is still likely to be decided by Congress ultimately. Emergency experts outraged after learning of US plans to phase out FEMA following hurricane season: 'Not even Trump can resist the ...
The underlying principle of FEMA is that the country has a shared responsibility to help communities stricken by natural ...
Trump's comments were among the most direct to date indicating his intention to significantly downsize if not outright eliminate FEMA, which has an annual budget of around $30 billion and employed ...
Economic Policy FEMA has enough funding for Hurricane Milton. What’s next is less certain. A disaster loan program at the Small Business Administration and other long-term FEMA projects could ...
President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane season is likely to put more responsibilities on states to provide services ...
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Craig Fugate, former FEMA administrator, about the challenges the U.S. faces with the impending arrival of Hurricane Milton weeks after Hurricane Helene.
As natural disasters like flooding, tornadoes and landslides piled up this spring, FEMA accumulated a backlog of disaster ...
A local meteorologist recalled how good forecasts during Hurricane Hugo in 1989 saved lives. Back then, federal forecasts ...
After the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warned staffers not to get in his way, the federal agency cut training for emergency managers, according to reports. Both moves ...