9 entries in the ledger
FEMA denied Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's request for a disaster declaration covering eight counties hit by August 2026 storms, flooding, tornadoes and wind damage, FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton's office said...
U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali ruled on September 28, 2026, that FEMA could not condition roughly $1 billion a year in terrorism-preparedness grants on states "exploring a transition to paper ballots or verifying...
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled Sept. 11 that a DHS plan to cut FEMA's staffing by 50% — more than 11,000 employees — was unlawful. Illston found DHS, then led by Secretary Kristi Noem, directed FEMA's leadership...
FEMA's office of the administrator emailed staff on the evening of September 4, 2026 that the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Justice Department, would use a conference center inside FEMA's Washington...
The Government Accountability Office reported on Aug. 4, 2026 that FEMA reduced its workforce without basing the decisions on any analysis of current staffing or any forecast of what future disasters would require. GAO...
A coalition of mostly Democratic-led states asked a federal judge on July 23, 2026 to block the Department of Homeland Security from withholding certain disaster-preparedness funds until states adopt election practices...
U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff ruled on July 17, 2026 that the administration violated the law when it dismissed Mary Comans, FEMA's former chief financial officer, without following civil-service removal...
CNN reported in the week of July 7, 2025, citing multiple sources inside the agency, that FEMA's response to the July 4 flash floods in the Texas Hill Country was slowed by a policy Homeland Security Secretary Kristi...
On July 1, 2025, President Trump toured a new immigration detention site at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, about 50 miles west of Miami, which state officials had nicknamed...