A group of emergency experts wants the Trump administration to raise the bar for federal help after disasters, and also make it easier for survivors to get money quickly.

The president may have backed off killing the agency outright, but his FEMA Review Council clearly sees a much reduced emergency management role for the federal government.

A council appointed by President Trump to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency proposed a major overhaul to the agency that stops short of the administration's vows to dismantle it, but ...

Cameron Hamilton led FEMA briefly in 2025. He was removed by the Trump administration after telling Congress that the agency ...

FEMA will no longer challenge court decisions that had invalidated its effort to force states to comply with immigration ...

Hamilton was removed as acting administrator in May 2025 after he told Congress he didn’t think the agency should be ...

President Trump chose Cameron Hamilton to direct federal disaster response. As acting head of FEMA last year, he had opposed ...

FEMA has reinstated a group of whistleblowers who signed an open letter to Congress last August warning that the Trump ...