De uitspraak komt te midden van bredere conflicten over de pogingen van de regering-Trump om het personeelsbestand van de federale overheid te verkleinen.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said DHS acted unlawfully by usurping FEMA's authority over its own personnel.

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s plan to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s workforce by 50% violated congressional protections governing the agency.

The Trump administration violated federal law when DHS slashed the workforce for and otherwise usurped its staffing authority FEMA, a court ruled this week. The post Trump admin 'unlawfully usurped the authority' of FEMA and violated post-Katrina reform law,

David Richardson worked to eliminate the country's top disaster agency when he led FEMA last year. Now, he says the administration has abandoned that goal.

A federal judge determined Friday that the Trump administration broke the law when it attempted to cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) workforce, a ruling which coincided with

The Trump administration has dramatically slowed down hazard mitigation funding in every state. FEMA has not approved any new Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds for disasters declared after March 2025, according to FEMA data and reports from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which tracks disaster funding.

Trump has made a habit of politicizing disaster aid and disproportionately withholding it from Democrat-led states.

The decision, written by Judge Cornelia Pillard, and joined by Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge Robert Wilkins, all Obama appointees, said the Department of Energy’s “sweeping conception” of its “emergency” authority had failed to persuade them.

The Supreme Court denied President Donald Trump’s emergency request to enforce mail-in ballot restrictions, the latest setback in his legal efforts. Though the court decided in the Trump administration’s favor regarding mail-in ballot restrictions,