President Trump announced plans to overhaul or potentially eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), shifting the majority of disaster relief costs to states and localities. He made these remarks during a visit to storm-ravaged North Carolina before traveling to California to assess the damage from massive wildfires. Trump believes state governors should handle disaster response, citing the inefficiency of FEMA's centralized approach.
President Donald Trump is visiting storm-ravaged parts of North Carolina before flying to California to survey damage from the massive fires.
The economic losses from the Palisades fire and others around Los Angeles are already in the tens of billions of dollars, worsening the state's existing home insurance crisis.
"I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it, meaning the state takes care of it," he said. He also threatened to make federal aid to fight the wildfires contingent on a change in the state's water policy.in total FEMA assistance for survivors of Helene and Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida's west coast less than two weeks after Helene.Swannanoa resident Lucy Bickers, who received assistance from FEMA after Hurricane Helene damaged her property, holds a sign in support of the government disaster agency as she waits on the route of visiting U.S.
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