President Donald Trump is in North Carolina on Friday surveying the damage that’s still unaddressed four months after the devastation brought by Hurricane Helene. The freshly inaugurated POTUS discussed aggressive reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] — or possible eliminating the agency altogether.
“I’ll also be signing an Executive Order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA — or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to… use your state to fix it and not waste time…” Trump said.
Trump promised to address the damage — and to do it quickly.
“We’re going to fix it, and we’re going to fix it as fast as you can,” Trump said. “It’s a massive amount of damage. FEMA has really let us down. Let the country down. And I don’t know if that’s Biden’s fault or whose fault it is, but we’re going to take over. We’re going to do a good job.”
“So we’re going to be doing something on FEMA that I think most people agree [with],” Trump said. “I’d like to see the states take care of disasters, let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen. And I think you’re going to find it a lot less expensive. You’ll do it for less than half, and you’re going to get a lot quicker response.”
Watch the clip below:
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “I’ll also be signing an Executive Order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA — or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to… use your state to fix it and not waste time…” pic.twitter.com/lQmPESd0Fc
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 24, 2025
