All posts tagged "Fema"

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration seized control of FEMA and imposed a staffing cut "pulled from thin air."

The order was filed Friday by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who sits in San Francisco in the Northern District of California. It was a response to a lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump.

Illston granted partial summary judgment to a coalition of unions and local governments. They had accused the Department of Homeland Security of stripping the Federal Emergency Management Agency of authority over its own workforce and ordering it to slash staffing by half....

A judge dealt a setback to Trump's power by ruling his administration broke the law by firing a civil servant, per Politico.

According to reporting by Politico, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that the Trump administration violated federal law when it fired Mary Comans, the chief financial officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), without going through congressionally mandated steps.

"This is huge," said Mark Zaid, one of Comans' lawyers, according to Politico. "It's an incredibly significant victory."...

States are being pressured into rewriting their election rules to receive terrorism grants, according to a New York Times report.

The Trump administration is demanding that states overhaul how they run elections, a few months before the midterms, or forfeit tens of millions in federal counterterrorism funding, The Times reported.

The changes include transitioning to hand-marked paper ballots, verifying the citizenship of voters, and conducting manual audits of 5 percent of ballots, which is "likely to cause significant delays in counting, cost millions of dollars and, in some cases, fall far short of what would be considered an adequate audit for races with narrow margins," The Times noted....

The third-ranking official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency is stepping away, according to the Washington Post.

Gregg Phillips is on leave after he was "asked to step away from his role because of concerns about how he's publicly perceived," a person familiar with the situation told the Washington Post in a new report.

Phillips claimed that God teleported him to a Waffle House 50 miles away and then doubled down by posting "haters gonna hate" in a Truth Social post....

Trump's head of the Department of Homeland Security bluntly rebuffed requests from houses of worship for more security in the wake of a shooting.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Fox News that houses of worship should "hire their own security" while speaking about the mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

Trump already has a "great team" heading federal law enforcement with him and FBI Director Kash Patel, Mullin insisted, refusing to fund more security for places of worship, according to reporting by The New Republic. ...

President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Politico reported.

A year ago, the president fired the former Navy SEAL who had run the nation's disaster agency after he reportedly defied Trump.

"The day before his dismissal on May 8, 2025, Hamilton seemed to contradict the president when he told a House subcommittee that FEMA should not be eliminated, as Trump had threatened to do," according to Politico....