The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced it would send $350 million in funding to localities and electric cooperatives for relief efforts following Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby.

Georgia receives $1 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for storm recoveries and pandemic response efforts as Trump administration looks to revamp FEMA.

The scheduled gathering of the FEMA review council was supposed to include "a public vote on the draft final report" outlining recommendations about the future of the federal agency, but was abruptly canceled Thursday.

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined the lawsuit in July, alongside fellow Democratic attorneys general from more than 20 other states, after FEMA officials announced in April 2025 that the BRIC program was ending. This came as the Trump administration was also considering eliminating the agency entirely.

Gov. Bob Ferguson announced that President Trump has approved Washington's request for an emergency declaration.

The Trump administration said in April it would end the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, calling it 'wasteful'

The group’s report did not call for FEMA to be eliminated, as President Trump suggested this year, according to CNN. Nor did it call for removing FEMA from the Homeland Security Department to become a stand-alone cabinet agency, CNN said, something emergency managers on the council and members of Congress have endorsed but Ms. Noem has resisted.

A United States District Court Judge has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reverse its termination of the federal program that has funded infrastructure resiliency efforts in communities across the country.

"It is time to close the chapter on FEMA," according to a draft report