A New York Times report found thousands of calls to FEMA went unanswered after the Department of Homeland Security laid off ...

Sources have said FEMA wasn’t authorized to launch search and rescue teams until 72 hours after flooding began.

Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz has called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be investigated over the ...

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem denied that Texas flood victims could not contact FEMA's call centers in the days following the disaster.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is under fire amid reports of a botched disaster response effort in Texas, one that the editorial board of the state’s biggest newspaper is comparing to ...

Trump’s FEMA council, led by Kristi Noem, met amid U.S. floods to discuss major changes, including possibly shifting disaster ...

FEMA was ready to respond to this week's floods in Texas—but was delayed by administrative hurdles and approval processes that took 72 hours to resolve.

Texas special session called to address flood warning failures and emergency response after Hill Country flooding caused more ...

But Trump is right about this one. The system of federal disaster relief does need reform. FEMA's failures are well-documented, and they have come at a steep cost to taxpayers.

Make no mistake: FEMA’s disaster response failures and the ideology of its leaders are unlikely to be separate matters, and Congress has an obligation to investigate any link between them.

"And so, when you look at 9/11, nobody questioned FEMA's response, from deployment of the Urban Search and Rescue Teams to the recovery. By and large, FEMA did its job.

The Nov. 19 hearing in which Criswell will answer for her alleged failure of leadership is titled In the Eye of the Storm: Oversight of FEMA’s Disaster Readiness and Response.