FEMA — Trump Wants Changes

President Trump is not happy with how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) handles emergencies. He was highly critical of FEMA in the aftermath of the two huge hurricanes that hit Florida just before the November election.

He issued an executive order last week to create a task force to review the agency, and what it does and doesn’t do, and report back to the president. A few days before that, Trump said he wanted to get rid of FEMA altogether.

The order came just after Trump visited the Los Angeles area to personally view the disastrous wildfires.

The task force will consist of the secretaries of homeland security and defense and some private-sector experts. Some predict the group will be stacked — and, in reality, tasked — with doing away with FEMA and returning the issue of dealing with disasters to the individual states.

Trump also made that clear when he told the media he’d "rather see the states take care of their own problems.”

That said, and as a reminder, only Congress can do away with a federal agency like FEMA. It also should be noted that many governors aren’t going to want the total responsibility of handling disasters.

Source link: Axios — https://bit.ly/3EbjNcL