President Donald Trump told North Carolina hurricane victims that under former President Joe Biden, the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed them in a time of crisis. Trump visited North Carolina on Jan. 24, four months after Hurricane Helene made landfall and damaged more than 73,000 homes.

FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated around the clock as the US is battered by year-round disasters ranging from wildfires to spring thunderstorms producing biblical amounts of hail.

In North Carolina Friday, President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order aimed at what he said would address problems inherent to FEMA.

President Trump told hurricane survivors in North Carolina Friday that he may be “getting rid of FEMA” — while saying he would end the “betrayal and neglect” of

President Trump said he intends to overhaul or terminate FEMA as he toured damage from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina.

FEMA is tasked with helping states and communities ... massive year-end appropriations bill signed into law by President Joe Biden. But California fire damages are expected to total among the ...

Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 22, Trump suggested that FEMA would be facing a reckoning.

Although President Donald Trump has floated eliminating FEMA with an executive order, he does not have unilateral authority, according to federal law.

Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”

President Donald Trump says he wants to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the U.S. faces the formidable task of rebuilding after Hurricane Helene storm damage in the southeast and dev

President Donald Trump signed a record number of executive orders during his first week back at the White House.

President Donald Trump is carrying out his immigration crackdown nationwide, with over 1,000 arrests reported by ICE on Monday. The actions prompted a tense standoff between the U.S. and Colombia afte