Here's what to know about FEMA as Trump talks of overhaul President Donald Trump this week said he wants to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the U.S. faces the daunting task of rebuilding after storm damage in the Southeast and devastating wildfires in California.
Trump this week spoke with congressional Republican leaders about whether FEMA should continue providing help to states in the same way, according to a person familiar with the conversation and granted anonymity to discuss it.
In an interview on Fox News this week, Trump said “FEMA is getting in the way of everything," and suggested that he would withhold assistance from California.
And Congress last year replenished the federal disaster aid fund by $100 billion as part of a massive year-end appropriations bill signed into law by President Joe Biden.
Trump criticized the agency after Hurricane Helene hit in the fall during the homestretch of the election year, questioning its response and spreading false information that its funding was going to migrants or foreign wars.
