President Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA, shifting disaster response and recovery responsibilities to state governments after this year's hurricane season. During an Oval Office briefing, he emphasized governors should manage emergency situations, asserting that inability to do so questions their fitness for office. Criticism of FEMA's effectiveness has driven Trump's administration's agenda, with the aim of reducing federal disaster aid directly, while the administration enhances state-level collaboration through communication agreements for mutual aid during emergencies. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem supports these changes, citing past failures of the agency.
We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level. A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can't handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn't be governor.
FEMA fundamentally needs to go away as it exists. We all know from the past that FEMA has failed thousand if not millions of people, and President Trump does not want to see that continue into the future.
While we are running this hurricane season, making sure that we have pre-staged and worked with the regions that are traditionally hit in these areas, we're also building communication and mutual aid agreements among states to respond to each other.
The federal government will start distributing less federal aid for disaster recovery, with funding coming directly from the president's office, indicating a shift in funding and responsibility for disaster responses.
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