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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Trump has said this week he wants to overhaul FEMA. While Texas has relied heavily on College Station for disaster relief, FEMA also plays a big role.

Alabama may be negatively impacted if President Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to either eliminate or overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, CBS’s Margaret Brennan told Vice President JD Vance in an interview on “Face the Nation” on Sunday.