Trump recommends that Fema end before visiting the fireplace in California

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media flanked by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee as they arrive to assess restoration efforts and tours areas destroyed by Helene Helene, in Asheville Regional Airport in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, January 24, 2025.

Leah Millis | Reuters

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is planning to take an executive action to revise – or possibly end – Federal Emergency Management Agency or Fema, which slows down the agency for its response to historical floods in North Carolina.

“I think we would recommend that Fema disappear,” Trump said at a briefing in Asheville, North Carolina, who was destroyed in September by Hurricane Helene.

Later Friday, the president will travel to Los Angeles, who continues to fight forest fires that have ravaged parts of the city.

When he spoke to journalists at an airport asphalt upon his arrival in Asheville, Trump said, “We look at the whole concept of FEMA.”

“I honestly like the concept (at) when North Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it, which means the state takes care of it,” he said.

“Getting a group of people to come in from an area that doesn’t even know where to go to solve a problem immediately is something that has never worked for me,” Trump said.

Trump added that further help with North Carolina and California should come directly from the federal government.

“So instead of going through FEMA, it will go through us,” he said.

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