President Donald Trump threatened “getting rid of FEMA,” the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “FEMA has turned out to be ...

Bush signed the Homeland Security Act, leading to the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2002. On March 1, 2003, FEMA became part of the Department of Homeland Security.

If you don’t have direct access to the president, like I had, it’s not going to work,” Brown, who served as the FEMA chief from 2003 to 2005 under former President Bush, said during his ...