Trump cited the disasters during his inauguration speech Monday as examples of an insufficient federal response to communities in need.
President Trump is taking the first trip of his term on Friday to North Carolina and California, visiting communities grappling with recovery from natural disasters.
Trump signed an executive order to pause foreign development aid. The order doesn't mention Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee or California.
In North Carolina, the president pledged “the support that you need to quickly recover and rebuild” after a hurricane. His message to fire-ravaged California had a different tone.
As wildfires raged across Los Angeles, killing at least 24 people and destroying thousands of structures, some people sought to contrast emergency response to the fires to disaster response that followed deadly hurricanes that battered the southeastern U.
North Carolina is another state prone to hurricanes—and in fact Hurricane Helene last fall triggered a Biden administration recovery effort led by Deanne Criswell, the impeccably qualified and unanimously confirmed director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. There were no conditions attached, but here are two that would have been nice.
President Donald Trump’s first trip since returning to the White House will take him to Asheville, North Carolina and Southern California, communities where he has loudly criticized the federal ...
President Donald Trump issued a host of executive orders on his first day, aiming to reverse many of former President Joe Biden’s policies and kick-start his own “America First” agenda.
President Donald Trump on Friday halted Democratic California Rep. Brad Sherman’s defense of using the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Frederick and Frances Caple, originally from the Carolinas, spent 58 years calling Altadena, California, home. That is, until January 7th, when wildfires forced them to leave everything behind.
The president was greeted by Gov. Newsom in L.A. Friday afternoon for a brief trip where he announced that the state will receive full federal backing to rebuild.
In fire-ravaged California, the state’s Democratic leaders pressed Trump for federal assistance that he’s threatened to hold up, some setting aside their past differences to shower him with praise.