The Trump administration is looking at ways to overhaul FEMA, the government's disaster management and response agency. Why it matters: The move — which President Trump has said could include dissolving the agency altogether — comes amid continued response efforts in the wake of September's Hurricane Helene and the deadly LA area wildfires this month.

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.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order which could lead to the eradication of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The order on Sunday night demanded a task force to investigate the agency and find solutions that will transform it.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whose resources are strained following multiple weather-related disasters and which is burdened by past failures in handling massive storms.

More than three years after Hurricane Ida devastated south Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency this month finally signed off on the first tranche of home elevation disaster grants for

About 40 people gathered at Pack Square Plaza downtown at Jan. 24 to demand an extension of FEMA's Transitional Sheltering Assistance program.

As part of the disaster assistance process done by FEMA, proper documentation for both ownership and occupancy of damaged residences is needed.

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued existence was vital to the country's disaster response efforts, after President Donald Trump said he wanted to overhaul or scrap it.

STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday signed an executive order establishing a review council to evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. Trump called on the council to hold its first public meeting within 90 days and submit a report to him within 180 days of the first meeting.

FNC's Shannon Bream hosts Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, WSJ White House reporter Amy Linskey, Richard Fowler from Forbes, and law professor Horace Cooper, to discuss President Trump's plans to reform FEMA,

Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”