Donald Trump visited fire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday, his second stop on a national disaster recovery tour that began in North Carolina, where the president vowed to “fundamentally reform” or potentially eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The back-to-back tours on opposite coasts underscored the challenges that the new administration will face as it pledges federal assistance to help communities rebuild from major disasters while proposing dramatic changes to the way the federal government responds to those disasters.