Trump recommends ending fema ahead of california fire site visit

Presiding Donald Trump on Friday said he plans to take executive action to overhaul – or posesibly end – the federal emergency management agency, or FemaSlamming the agency for its response to historic floods in North carolina,

“I think we’re going to recommend that feema go away,” Trump said at a briefing in asheville, north carolina, which was devastated in September by Hurricane helene,

The President Later Friday is set to travel to los angeles, which continues to battle wildfires that have ravaged larges swaths of the City.

Speaking to reporters on an Airport tarmac upon his Arrival in Assheville, Trump said, “We’re looking at the whole concept of feema.”

“I like, frankly, the concept (that) when north carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it, meaning the state tax care of it,” HE SAID.

“To have a group of people come in from an area that don’t even know where they’re going, in order to solve immediatily a problem is summing that Never works for me,” trump said.

Trump added that additional aid for north carolina and california should flow directly from the federal government.

“So raather than going through fema, it will go through us,” He Said.

Trump’s comments on Fema appear to align with the conservative policy blueprint know Project 2025Which calls for reforming the agency’s spending to “shift the Majority of Preparedness and Response Costs to States and Localities Intead of the Federal Government.”

Trump Politicized Helene Shortly after it Hit the US, Criticizing then-President Joe biden‘s handling of the federal response and Spreading falsehoods About fema’s actions.

In January, as los angeles’ Pacific palisades neighborhood was leveled by unprecedented wildfires, trump sought to pin the blame for the destruction on california’s democratic gov. Gavin Newsom.

He also threatened to make federal aid to fight the wildfires contracted on a change in the state’s water policy.

The biden administration as of nov. 5 had approved more than $ 2.7 billion In Total FEMA Assistant for Survivors of Helene and Hurricane Milton, Which Hit Florida’s West Coast Less Than Two Weeks after helene.

The new york times Reported earlier friday that while somefor fema leaders agre with trump that states should be in charge of managing their own disasters, the states themeselves tend to want more federal helps.

The Trump Administration has yet to unveil any formal proposal to retool fema or federal disaster reliaf policy.

While He Mulls Eliminating Fema, Trump Continues to Promise Disaster-Affected Communities that they will receive federal help.

“We’re going to get you the resources you need and the support you desrve,” He said Friday in Sheville.