Last week, President Donald Trump suggested "getting rid" of the Federal Emergency Management Agency while touring Hurricane Helene-affected communities in North Carolina, where I am from. He then established a task team to determine the agency's future by signing an executive order.
FEMA has proven to be a catastrophe," Trump declared during a briefing. "I believe we're going to suggest that FEMA be abolished and that we pay the state directly, rather than giving them a percentage."
Given that California is still on fire and that winter storms are imminent, that is a daring suggestion. In the Appalachian Mountains, people are still getting over the "once in a generation" storm that occurred last year; entire communities are having to rebuild. Rather than enhancing disaster response, a radical overhaul of FEMA is more

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