The council is slated to hold its first meeting by April 24 and deliver an initial report to the White House by late July.

New York City sued the Trump administration last week over the $80 million in federal funding the White House took back without consent. The city's Law Department said it was challenging the president's decision to revoke Federal Emergency Management Agency funding approved to reimburse the city for migrant housing expenses.

The judge had already ruled that the administration was not complying with his previous order requiring the government to keep disbursing money to states.

A developing Trump administration plan for deep staff cuts and drastic changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency is raising alarm among some state officials and even Republican lawmakers, who worry that it will weaken responses to future disasters.

The hearing comes as Trump has cast uncertainty on plans for federal emergency management. During his first week in office, Trump said “FEMA will go away” and suggested that states should have full control over disaster recovery, using federal money disbursed through the White House.

President Donald Trump’s administration has signed a disaster declaration that would allow FEMA to provide individual assistance for those impacted in Kentucky’s recent bouts of devastating severe weather.

Soon after his return to the White House, President Trump mused about formally disbanding FEMA. The departures suggest that the agency is already being thinned out. “The massive reduction in ...

A federal judge on Thursday issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from freezing federal funding without going through Congress.

(Story continues after gallery.) Cameron Hamilton, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said in a statement from the White House the disaster declaration "will now open up the full suite of FEMA support to those impacted."

The council is slated to hold its first meeting by April 24 and deliver an initial report to the White House by late July.

New York City sued the Trump administration on Friday for clawing back $80.5 million of grants intended to cover part of the city's cost of housing migrants.