President Trump visited North Carolina to assess hurricane recovery efforts, expressing his desire for states to handle disaster relief independently and hinting at the potential abolishment of FEMA. He criticized FEMA's effectiveness and promised to recommend its dissolution. During the visit, Trump also met with residents and received briefings on the ongoing recovery.
On his first domestic trip as president again, Trump said he would “like to see the states take care of disasters,” with local personnel handling relief efforts. He previewed a “recommendation” he would make in the “next couple of weeks.”then received a briefing in Fletcher, North Carolina , on the recovery effort after the hurricane, which made landfall last September, killed 219 people, and caused $78.7 billion in damage.
“I’ll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA,” he said. “I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away.
As Trump departed the White House earlier Friday, he told reporters on the South Lawn that former President Joe Biden had permitted “a horrible thing” in North Carolina to “fester.”
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