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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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I was with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it was folded into DHS in 2003. Almost immediately, we lost large chunks of our budget, our staff and our authority to DHS.