FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated around the clock as the US is battered by year-round disasters ranging from wildfires to spring thunderstorms producing biblical amounts of hail.

Boston and the MBTA will receive nearly $13 million from the from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to protect neighborhoods and infrastructure from the impacts of climate change.

Trump wants to overhaul, and maybe disband, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Maybe we should focus on the root cause: Climate change.

“FEMA has turned out to be a disaster,” Trump said in North Carolina on Friday while on a multistate tour to areas still recovering from the effects of last year’s Hurricane Helene and the ongoing wildfires near Los Angeles. “I think we recommend that FEMA go away.”

People walk on a street with slush in New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States, on Jan. 22, 2025. A rare winter storm, known as Enzo, has swept through the southern U.S. with record-breaking snow and bitterly cold weather. Lan Wei/Xinhua/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.

On Friday, while visiting victims of September’s Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, Mr. Trump said he was considering “getting rid of FEMA.” He now reportedly plans to sign an executive order as a step toward reshaping FEMA, which could eliminate the agency.

Last week, while visiting areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene in my home state of North Carolina, President Donald Trump proposed “getting rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Then he signed an executive order establishing a task force to decide the agency's fate.

According to the executive order, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Review Council, co-chaired by the secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense, will assess FEMA’s effectiveness over the past four years, comparing its responses to state and private sector efforts of disaster relief.

On January 24, while visiting hurricane disaster areas in North Carolina, President Donald Trump told reporters that his administration would likely “recommend that FEMA go away” while letting “the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen.

On January 24, while visiting hurricane disaster areas in North Carolina, President Donald Trump told reporters that his administration would likely “recommend that FEMA go away” while letting “the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen.

President Donald Trump’s sudden move to freeze federal grants is hitting states where people are struggling to recover from wildfires and hurricanes

Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions in this month's fires by 35 percent and its intensity by 6 percent.