President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration would examine sweeping changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and possibly even terminate it via an executive order.
During a hurricane recovery briefing near Asheville, N.C., the president floated an executive order “to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe getting rid of FEMA.” He did not give a timeline for when he might put pen to paper on such an order.
Trump appeared to suggest that should he opt to fold the nation’s disaster agency, the federal government would still allocate disaster aid to the states. But once states had those monies, it would be up to state and local officials to clean up and rebuild on their own following natural disasters.
