As "500 year" floods become nearly annual events, the founder of the nonprofit Disaster Accountability Project explains why ...

The anticipated layoffs would affect FEMA's Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees (CORE) who support disaster recovery ...

FEMA CORE employees make up approximately 40% of FEMA’s workforce and are deployed, as needed, to disaster areas to assist with response and recovery. In 2023, the Government Accountability Office ...

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

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week ...

Homeland Security plans could slash thousands of FEMA disaster response jobs in 2026, raising concerns about delays in recovery and legal limits on cuts.

We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We ...

North Carolina’s emergency management chief says the state has “significant concerns” with planned changes to Public ...

Documents outline potential reductions to CORE and surge staffing, raising concerns about disaster response capacity ...

The dismissals are elevating fears among FEMA staff that more job cuts are on the way. A FEMA planning document detailed potential cuts of more than 11,500 people from a workforce of about 23,000.

Four Arizona GOP congressmen are calling on federal officials to reverse a decision denying disaster relief funds to Gila and ...

President Donald Trump during a January 2025 visit to North Carolina named Michael Whatley as being in charge of the response ...