WASHINGTON - More than 180 current and former employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency delivered a letter to Congress Monday warning that Trump administration cuts to the nation's emergency response program risk catastrophic consequences.

Over the last few years, FEMA’s BRIC program has awarded $4.5 billion worth of grants intended to help communities prepare for future disasters. But with the Trump administration eying the program for cuts,

The “Katrina Declaration and Petition to Congress" calls out reductions to CERT, the National Fire Academy and hazard grants as weakening national disaster readiness

The recently defunded nonprofit corporation that distributed federal money to public media stations across the United States is warning of another casualty when it shuts down next month: the resilience of the nation's emergency alert systems.

Twenty US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday with the aim of blocking the cut of funding to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) pre-disaster mitigation program. The lawsuit specifically seeks to preserve the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities ...

Exclusive: ‘A more vulnerable nation’: FEMA memos lay out risks of plan to cut $1B in disaster and security grants

It would require FEMA to reinstate employees fired by the Trump administration and reinstate a federal flood mitigation assistance program.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to cut its Urban Areas Security Initiative program, according to memos reported on by CNN last week, though it has not told states or formally ...