Since former President Jimmy Carter created FEMA in 1979, it has become a massive federal agency with a budget of $29.5 billion in fiscal 2023.

President Donald Trump says he wants to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the U.S. faces the formidable task of rebuilding after Hurricane Helene storm damage in the southeast and devastating wildfires in California.

Trump attacked FEMA, saying the agency has not done its “job for the last four years,” and suggested without evidence that Democrats did not care about disasters in states like North Carolina—which has a Democratic governor—but are eager to get federal support to deal with the Los Angeles fires.

After his 2025 inauguration, a rumor spread about Trump redirecting funds meant for undocumented migrants to North Carolina hurricane relief.

Trump said FEMA "is going to be a whole big discussion" in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump is preparing to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been on the frontlines of responding to disasters in California and North Carolina.

The new president doesn’t appear interested in overhauling or reforming FEMA, only in eliminating the agency altogether.

States may end up bearing the brunt of natural disaster management instead of benefitting from the resources of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday.

President Donald Trump warned FEMA is set to face reckoning for not doing its job for four years under the Biden administration, he said in an exclusive interview with Sean Hannity.

Trump's suggestion that states should "take care of their own problems" could have major implications for GOP states in the South.

Donald Trump issued a warning to FEMA in his first sit-down interview as President, declaring that all the disaster response agency does "is complicate everything."In his first television interview since he was inaugurated for his second term on Monday,

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