A 2023 Government Accountability Office report indicated that FEMA only had 5,000 full-time staff members, as well as a group of reservists and emergency-response workers who could be called up to ...

President Donald Trump entered his second term talking about eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Then ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and lawmakers considered less error-prone courses for the organization's future during a Senate hearing Thursday. "We want to make sure FEMA has a culture ...

GAO warns about FEMA staffing as Trump fires hundreds. By Thomas Frank | 02/27/2025 06:12 AM EST . The delivery of disaster aid is on the Government Accountability Office’s High-Risk List for ...

Homeland Security Watchdog Issues Unusual Retraction of 13 FEMA Reports ... The new approach would be a formal audit in compliance with the Government Accountability Office’s “Yellow Book ...

Speed vs. accountability: The call to fix FEMA and the high stakes for Florida WLRN Public Media | By Tom Hudson Published February 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM EST ...

FEMA’s challenges are not about funding alone but focus on accountability and strategic clarity. It’s time to reimagine FEMA, not throw money at a broken system. A new FEMA must embrace its role as ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so overwhelmed with other storms by the time Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last year that more than half of the workers it was deploying to disasters ...

House GOP chairman demands FEMA accountability for Hurricane Helene after storm claims more than 200 lives. Some North Carolina GOP representatives have praised the federal response.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have been double-billed for the funerals of hundreds of people who died of COVID-19, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Wednesday.