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.
President Donald Trump warned FEMA is set to face reckoning for not doing its job for four years under the Biden ...
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the details of President Donald Trump’s visit to California after suggesting eliminating ...
During a tense press conference with local officials, Trump repeatedly bemoaned the perceived decline of FEMA, saying that it “was good” in years past, but it’s “no good anymore.” ...
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 ...
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Gov. Beshear ‘happy’ White House rescinded memo freezing federal aidThe governor stressed negative impacts of the plausible move on Kentucky affecting programs such as Medicaid, reduced lunch ...
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