Several states and two Native American tribes waited months for disaster aid, while hundreds of requests for critical emergency services remain on hold.

The decision was likely in part due to the agency's delayed response to the flooding disaster in Central Texas. Senior FEMA leader Ken Pagurek told colleagues this was the last straw after months of frustration over President Donald Trump's repeated efforts to eliminate the agency, CNN reported.

As deadly floods ravaged Texas, FEMA’s response was stalled by political interference, bureaucratic delays, and personal oversight from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—leading to the resignation of a top official.

There are regulatory timelines, especially for individual assistance, that are in play, and these delays do affect the delivery of assistance,” a longtime FEMA official, speaking anonymously out ...

Last week, a Republican lawmaker said that he didn’t send a letter to West Virginia’s congressional delegation urging flood assistance, and said he had been hacked. In the Facebook group Marshall County WV Republican Club,

Some even said they were hung up on after waiting hours for an update on the status of their FEMA assistance application. FEMA just came an 8,500 minute wait time. Yes, you read that correctly.

In early April, President Donald Trump approved millions of dollars in assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Virginia, which was reeling from devastating winter storms and ...