“FEMA has turned out to be a disaster,” Trump said in North Carolina on Friday while on a multistate tour to areas still recovering from the effects of last year’s Hurricane Helene and the ongoing wildfires near Los Angeles. “I think we recommend that FEMA go away.”

Trump signed an executive order giving FEMA more authority in overseeing the LA wildfire aid relief after threatening to overhaul the agency.

Since former President Jimmy Carter created FEMA in 1979, it has become a massive federal agency with a budget of $29.5 billion in fiscal 2023.

On Jan. 24, President Donald Trump named Congressman Tim Moore (NC-14) to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Management Agency Review Council that was created by executive order, according to a press release from the congressman’s office.

Trump claims FEMA is getting ‘in the way’ and pitches abolishing it during first interview since return to White House - Trump wants to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency and let states handle their own disaster needs.

Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 22, Trump suggested that FEMA would be facing a reckoning.

Notably, Trump’s executive order on FEMA does not seek to eliminate the agency; Congress would need to act to do that. The order instead underscores Trump’s interest in turning to outside advisers and private-sector companies to fill some typically governmental functions as he seeks to quickly accomplish his second-term goals.

President Donald Trump is preparing to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been on the frontlines of responding to disasters in California and North Carolina.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the details of President Donald Trump’s visit to California after suggesting eliminating FEMA aid to California. Collins says White House officials didn’t have California Gov.

President Donald Trump warned FEMA is set to face reckoning for not doing its job for four years under the Biden administration, he said in an exclusive interview with Sean Hannity.

President Trump’s plan to shutter the Federal Emergency Management Agency could save the federal government billions but will hit stiff resistance from governors who don’t want to shoulder more of the cost of natural disasters.

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to tap health industry lobbyist Don Dempsey for a top White House budget job, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.