Climate Politics
Trump Can’t End FEMA But It Needs Reform, Says Obama’s FEMA Head
The agency “was never intended” to do what it does today, according to its former chief Craig Fugate.
A resident whose house was destroyed speaks with a FEMA worker after the Eaton Fire in Pasadena, California, Jan. 17, 2025.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to whittle down or phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and last week he gave a rough timeline for that: “after hurricane season.”
“We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level,” Trump told reporters on June 10 during a briefing in the Oval Office.