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.
President Trump said he intends to overhaul or terminate FEMA as he toured damage from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina.
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 signaled he is considering sweeping changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the country’s lead federal agency responsible for disaster relief, during his second term in the White House.
Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 22, Trump suggested that FEMA would be facing a reckoning.
President Donald Trump warned FEMA is set to face reckoning for not doing its job for four years under the Biden administration, he said in an exclusive interview with Sean Hannity.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the details of President Donald Trump’s visit to California after suggesting eliminating FEMA aid to California. Collins says White House officials didn’t have California Gov.
President Donald Trump said that his administration will step in and assist North Carolina as it recovers from Hurricane Helene months after the storm.
Notably, Trump’s executive order on FEMA does not seek to eliminate the agency; Congress would need to act to do that. The order instead underscores Trump’s interest in turning to outside advisers and private-sector companies to fill some typically governmental functions as he seeks to quickly accomplish his second-term goals.
President Donald Trump is preparing to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been on the frontlines of responding to disasters in California and North Carolina.
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White House nixes massive spending move — not Trump’s power to do it
It also does not keep the administration from issuing new memos from the White House budget office on another spending freeze, with administration officials arguing that such an action falls within the power of the executive branch.
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to tap health industry lobbyist Don Dempsey for a top White House budget job, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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