President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Here's what to know.

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

“FEMA’s mission of helping people before ... depend on success of our great education enterprise. – President Jimmy Carter On Oct. 17, 1979, President Carter signed the Department of ...

FEMA is responsible for managing the response to natural or man-made disasters within the United States. The Agency employs ...

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

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29 ... As a professor of disaster and emergency management, I respect Carter’s significant contributions to emergency management and his responses.

Located within FEMA training documents is a pledge that the commitment bestowed on the agency by Carter will never change. The passage reads: "On April 1, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the ...

Bill Zuk, a longtime Sarasota resident, said over the phone about what he’d say to President Jimmy Carter, who passed away Sunday at the age of 100. “The program that he initiated (FEMA ...

"Jimmy Carter's character and commitment ... "His administration established FEMA, laying the foundation for disaster response today. We honor his memory." ...

Appointing Paul Volcker was the top accomplishment of the Carter presidency, and the benefit of a more vigilant Fed continues ...

President-elect Donald Trump could soon become the first president to declare a “national energy emergency.” Trump said recently that he plans to make the declaration on his first day in ...