President Trump recently floated the idea of getting rid of FEMA. It would take an act of Congress to make that happen.

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The agency was created in the late 1970s and is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by disasters nationwide.

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Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done ...

Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 22, Trump suggested that FEMA would ...

President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of overhauling or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or ...

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That means Congress would not only have to act to give Trump the ability to dissolve agencies in the first place, but it’d also have to approve any proposed Trump plan to eliminate FEMA.

The agency’s authorities were defined and expanded by the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Amendments of 1988, which amended the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 and renamed it the Robert T.