The order gives the Federal Emergency Management Agency and half a dozen agencies authority to override California state laws and federal statutes to provide relief amid the Los Angeles wildfires.

President Donald Trump had a heated exchange with Democratic Representative Brad Sherman over the effectiveness of FEMA during visits to disaster-hit areas in California. Sherman praised FEMA’s ...

LOS ANGELES – US President Donald Trump on Jan 24 floated shuttering the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) during a trip to disaster areas in North Carolina and California, where he ...

and then FEMA gets here and they don’t know the area, they’ve never been to the area,” he added. After North Carolina, the president traveled to California where he was warmly welcomed by California ...

and then FEMA gets here and they don’t know the area, they’ve never been to the area,” he added. After North Carolina, the president traveled to California where he was warmly welcomed by ...

President Trump toured disaster-stricken areas in North Carolina and California, criticising FEMA and suggesting states handle disaster recovery directly. He proposed this strategy to reduce ...

Washington — President Trump said Friday that he would sign an executive order to overhaul or possibly even abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency as he visited North Carolina ...

Trump criticized FEMA again during his trip to California, saying the agency is “not good anymore.” Trump and Newsom, who previously invited him to survey the wildfire damage, have sparred ...

“Where communities get in trouble with FEMA is that they adopt things that either they are not equipped to, or do not want to, enforce.” Some properties in the floodplain that were built before 1982, ...

SWANNANOA, N.C. — President Trump said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management ... he was much less generous toward California, where he would visit wildfire ...