The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA and the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, confirmed to POLITICO’s E&E News on Thursday that Richardson holds two presidential ...

A week into his appointment, FEMA's new acting chief, David Richardson, held his first town hall for the agency's employees. In the May 15 meeting, he outlined a planned overhaul of the nation's ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion in grant funding for communities and first ...

So David Richardson, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he only recently learned there’s such a thing as hurricane season. That’s like the manager of a Red ...

WASHINGTON − David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told staff on Friday he will "run right over" anyone that resists changes and that all delegation of ...

Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS ...

FEMA's new chief David Richardson left staff confused after saying during a briefing that he didn’t know the US had a hurricane season, just one day after it officially began. While officials ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting leader has adamantly defended the federal government’s response to historic flooding in Texas earlier ...

According to rumors that spread online in early June 2025, David Richardson, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he did not know the U.S. had a hurricane season each year.

As the Federal Emergency Management Agency responds to the deadly flooding in Texas, one key resource is missing: the FEMA leader. David Richardson, the agency’s acting administrator, has not been to ...

David Richardson, who started leading FEMA in May, said he was previously unaware of the U.S. hurricane season during a Monday morning briefing, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.

David Richardson, the new acting FEMA chief, warned staff in a meeting Friday not to try to impede upcoming changes, saying that “I will run right over you.” ...