The scrutiny on the agency comes as President Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned the necessity of FEMA and called for ...

FEMA’s search and rescue chief resigned because of ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s sluggish response to the Texas flooding disaster, ...

It just slows down the entire response and delays the recovery process from starting,” the previous FEMA chief said.

The decision was likely in part due to the agency's delayed response to the flooding disaster in Central Texas. Senior FEMA ...

The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, Ken Pagurek, has resigned due to frustration over the agency's response to ...

Urban Search and Rescue Chief Ken Pagurek quit over a new policy that led to delays in FEMA's response to the flooding in ...

Ken Pagurek had told colleagues the Trump administration was causing ‘chaos’ inside FEMA and creating dangerous delays in ...

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can ...

As deadly floods ravaged Texas, FEMA’s response was stalled by political interference, bureaucratic delays, and personal oversight from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—leading to the ...

Former FEMA official Jeremy Edwards joined Morning Joe after the resignation of the agency’s Urban Search and Rescue chief, ...

Several states and two Native American tribes waited months for disaster aid, while hundreds of requests for critical emergency services remain on hold.