Our research finds that conditions were placed on $12 million in Katrina aid, out of nearly $122 billion.

President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management ...

North Carolina continues to struggle with the impact of Hurricane Helene, which has been described as the deadliest storm to ...

The move follows a Jan. 20 Department of Homeland Security directive to dissolve membership of all advisory committees.

FEMA was absorbed by DHS in 2003, prompting criticism that its highly bureaucratic nature rendered the agency ineffective in addressing natural disasters.

North Carolina continues to struggle with the impact of Hurricane Helene, which has been described as the deadliest storm to hit the U.S. mainland since Hurricane Katrina. The Category 4 hurricane ...

Its reputation was battered by its poor handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 ... FEMA of bungling emergency relief efforts in North Carolina and said he preferred that states be given federal ...

At minimum, FEMA needs a major overhaul. A trimmed down agency with a sharpened, more nimble focus would then need a strong leader such as Lt. Gen. Honoré. To use a more recent example, FEMA needs a ...

An example of this would be FEMA acting as a liaison between North Carolina and the Army Corps ... the agency’s response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina flood, which killed more than 1,800 people.