The July 2 letter takes aim at an April memo to the White House Office of Management and Budget that calls for significant changes to FEMA’s disaster responses. What would change? Under current ...

About 2,000 full-time FEMA staffers have been either removed or left voluntarily since January, adding up to about a third of the agency’s 6,100-person workforce, according to media reports.

That budget proposal, which needs Congressional approval, does not specify which programs or grants would be axed but says the cuts would enable FEMA to refocus on “sound emergency management.” ...

Removing ‘equity’ from FEMA money The budget proposes $646 million in cuts to Non-Disaster Federal Emergency Management Agency grant programs.

How did federal budget cuts impact Forest Service, FEMA? Earlier this year, the Trump administration reportedly cut more than 700 U.S. Forest Service staffers who assisted in firefighting efforts.

Reports of potential cuts to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have local officials concerned about the impact on disaster assistance. FEMA is reportedly considering a $1 billion ...

PEMA urges FEMA to reconsider cuts, changes that would impact communities Scranton firefighters from Rescue 1 arrive in a boat Saturday at Jackson Street and South Merrifield Avenue with a woman ...

FEMA also proposes to change disaster recovery cost sharing, according to Padfield. The agency’s long-standing approach has provided a nonfederal share ranging from 10% to 25%, depending on the ...