Job cuts affect how quickly infrastructure is rebuilt, how soon businesses reopen and how efficiently insurance claims move after a disaster strikes.

MADISON – After historic flooding in the Milwaukee area, Gov. Tony Evers' administration is assessing the extent of damage − a process that could qualify area residents for federal disaster aid. Milwaukee and other parts of Wisconsin were hit with ...

"We wanted to provide a comprehensive picture of preparedness to show what's going to be necessary if that FEMA support is pulled back," Chris Currie said.

Serious needs assistance for essentials like water, food, first aid, prescriptions, infant formulas, breast feeding equipment, diapers, personal hygiene items, and fuels for transportation. Applying for FEMA Assistance: FEMA assistance is meant to help ...

Current and former FEMA employees sent a letter to Congress telling them that sweeping changes made by the Trump administration may affect their ability to respond to natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. The agency also said in the letter that ...

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency.

In October 2025, after summer storms severely affected areas of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, approved Federal Emergency Management Assistance disaster relief aid for affected red states but denied assistance to blue states.

Slogging through a thick slop of mud and rock, Brian Hill passed the roof that Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters had just ripped off someone’s barn and dumped into his yard. Then he peered into the unrecognizable chaos inside what had been his family’s ...

Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it could be dismantled as soon as December. Lately, his team has backed away from that idea, but there are still major changes ...

Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado’s U.S. senators decried the Trump administration’s denial of emergency recovery funds for the state and promised to fight a decision they called “political games.” Democratic Gov. Jared Polis put in a request for a ...