The FEMA Independence Act will now be reviewed by the House Homeland ... the bipartisan backing of this proposal could spark renewed debate on how best to modernize federal disaster response.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said during Monday’s Cabinet meeting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

Tillis and Padilla introduced the FEMA Independence Act to make the agency a cabinet-level entity reporting to the President.

Undoubtedly, there are ways to make FEMA more efficient. Indeed, the bipartisan proposal introduced recently to again make ...

They would remove the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, and make it an independent agency with cabinet rank reporting directly to the president.

“The FEMA Independence Act,” sponsored by Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D) and co-sponsored with his state colleague Rep. Byron Donalds (R), would break FEMA out of DHS and establish a cabinet ...

They would remove the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, and make it an independent agency with cabinet rank reporting directly to the president.

In a move aimed at streamlining federal emergency response, Representatives Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) have introduced bipartisan legislation to remove the Federal Emergency ...

A bipartisan pair of Florida lawmakers is teaming up to establish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as a separate Cabinet-level agency in an effort to "cut red tape, improve ...

They would remove the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, and make it an independent agency with Cabinet rank reporting directly to the president.

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