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.
Officials said the decision to halt loans and grants was necessary to ensure spending complies with recent executive orders.
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 ...
Trump claims FEMA is getting ‘in the way’ and pitches abolishing it during first interview since return to White House - ...
These agencies have 15 days to report back to the White House. Under the direction of FEMA, these federal agencies are charged with expediting housing relief for survivors, expediting bulk ...
After years of Conservative efforts to end government grants for public radio, President Donald Trump has frozen federal ...
The Trump administration is holding its first White House press conference on Tuesday, with newly minted press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
President Donald Trump blasted the Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s response to the fires ravaging California. During a tense press conference with local officials, Trump repeatedly ...
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to tap health industry lobbyist Don Dempsey for a top White House budget job, the ...
President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.
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