The Trump administration this week began signaling plans to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other U.S. government agencies’ responses to natural disasters.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a little-noticed executive order aimed at “achieving efficiency through state and local preparedness,” ordering national security adviser Mike Waltz and the heads of relevant agencies to establish policies to bolster America’s resilience to natural disasters and “move away from an all-hazards approach.” The executive order also states that the Trump administration is moving to give individual states greater authority over disaster preparations.
“This order empowers State, local, and individual preparedness and injects common sense into infrastructure prioritization and strategic investments through risk-informed decisions that make our infrastructure, communities, and economy resilient to global and dynamic threats and hazards,” Trump wrote in the executive order.
In January, Trump criticized FEMA while at Asheville Regional Airport in Western North Carolina prior to touring areas that were ravaged by Hurricane Helene in September, telling reporters that the agency has “turned out to be a disaster” and “a very big disappointment.”
“I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away,” Trump told reporters at the time. […]
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