Trump wants to get rid of FEMA. The future of disaster relief would be grim
“FEMA has turned out to be a disaster,” Trump said in North Carolina on Friday while on a multistate tour to areas still recovering from the effects of last year’s Hurricane Helene and the ongoing wildfires near Los Angeles. “I think we recommend that FEMA go away.”
Rather than dismantling FEMA, we need to reimagine it as an elite federal agency capable of managing the increasingly complex and severe disasters of a polycrisis age.
Trump signed an executive order giving FEMA more authority in overseeing the LA wildfire aid relief after threatening to overhaul the agency.
Trump claims FEMA is getting ‘in the way’ and pitches abolishing it during first interview since return to White House - ...
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the details of President Donald Trump’s visit to California after suggesting eliminating ...
President Donald Trump said that his administration will step in and assist North Carolina as it recovers from Hurricane ...
On Jan. 24, President Donald Trump named Congressman Tim Moore (NC-14) to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Management Agency Review Council that was created by executive order, according ...
Notably, Trump’s executive order on FEMA does not seek to eliminate the agency; Congress would need to act to do that. The ...
President Donald Trump caught his own administration off guard last week by suggesting that the nation’s primary disaster response agency might simply “go away.” ...
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