Trump expresses intention to reshape disaster response agency FEMA
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US President Donald Trump interacts with people affected by Hurricane Helene, as Trump tours areas devastated by the hurricane to assess recovery efforts in Swannanoa, North Carolina, U.S., January 24, 2025. — Reuters
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Swannawa: During a visit to North Carolina storm -hit areas on Friday, US President Donald Trump announced his intention to sign an executive order to terminate or terminate the central federal agency to deal with natural disasters. –
On his first trip to Trump on Monday, FEMA accused FEMA for misrepresenting emergency relief efforts in North Carolina, which was destroyed by a Hurricane Helen flood in September.
He said his executive order would begin the process of overtaking or abolishing the agency primarily.
“FEMA has proved to be a disaster,” he said during a visit to the damaged neighborhood by Helen, where the trees were cut and houses were mounted on windows. “I think we suggest that FEMA go.”
FEMA brings emergency staff, goods and goods to help recover from natural disasters, and funds for the agency have increased in recent years as extreme weather events have increased its demand for services.
The agency, which has 10 regional offices and employed more than 20,000 people across the country, has been running the Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration for the past four years.
During a briefing on the rehabilitation efforts, Republican Trump promised to quickly help “get help you need” to rebuild North Carolina.
He said he would prefer to give states a federal money to deal with disasters rather than relying on FEMA to work.
The FEMA Project was a target of 2025, which was a conservative blueprint for the second term of Trump, produced by the president’s allies, from which the president removed himself during the election. The project demanded the termination of DHS and transfer to FEMA to the Interior Department or Transport Department.
In addition, it suggested changing the formula that the agency uses to determine when federal disaster assistance is needed, states to prevent and respond to disasters.
Democrats expressed their support for FEMA.
FEMA has been an important partner in North Carolina Democratic US Representative Deborah Ross on Friday, said in an X post on Friday.
“I appreciate President Trump’s concern about the Western NC, but eliminating the Fema will be a catastrophe for our state,” he said.
Trump complained that Biden did not work enough to help western North Carolina recover from a hurricane, the Biden administration rejected as false information.
Trump also strongly criticized the response of Democratic officials to a forest fire in Los Angeles, which has caused widespread devastation this month. His Republican colleagues in Congress have threatened to stop destruction assistance to the region.
Trump was about to visit Los Angeles at the end of the day, while the region was in danger due to three major flames.
Newsom will welcome Trump in Los Angeles.
In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Trump threatened to stop California aid and reiterated a false claim that state governor, GwenNewsom, and other officials provided water from the northern part of the state to fight the fire. Has refused.
“I don’t think we should give something to California unless they let the water flow,” Trump said.
It has falsely claimed that New Democrat, a Democrat, preferred the protection of dangerous fish to public protection. Newsome has said that there is nothing between fish and fire.
The governor told reporters Thursday that he plans to be present at the Los Angeles International Airport to welcome Trump.
Trump has accused New News and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass – who was out of the country at the time of the fire – accused of “severe disqualification”, towards which he lacking preparation and management of ineffective or harmful water Declared the policies.
Due to dehydration, some hydrants were dried up in the pacific Pacific Palacedes, which disrupted the initial response. When the fire started, a water reservoir that could provide more water to the area was empty for a year. Authorities have promised to investigate why it was dry.
Mayor Boss and Fire officials have said that hydrants were not designed to deal with such catastrophe, and emphasized the unprecedented nature of the fire.
Trump has focused some of his criticisms on complex California’s complex policies, in which the northern part of the state has to share the water supply with a dry south. As a result of the twist, some water is emitted into the sea, which Trump has shown as a nonsense waste.
Newsom has dismissed the attacks as baseless, and experts have said that the turning point to protect agricultural interests has not played much or any role in fighting the fire.
Authorities say that since the January 7 fire, it has killed 28 people and damaged or destroyed about 16,000 structures. Most of the southern California remains under a red flag warning for the risk of severe fire due to sharp, dry winds.
