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 ...

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 ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is tightening her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every contract and grant over $100,000 must now cross her desk for approval, according ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homeland Security Watchdog Issues Unusual Retraction of 13 FEMA Reports Results of self-criticism to be fewer “feel-good” after-action evaluations. Charles S. Clark ...