President Donald Trump said he will be signing an executive order to reform, overhaul, or “get rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), while touring areas in western North Carolina on Jan. 24 that were devastated by Hurricane Helene last year.
Trump made the comments at a press conference in Fletcher, North Carolina, a small town close to Asheville. He criticized the Biden administration’s response to Hurricane Helene, a catastrophic Category 4 tropical cyclone that tore through the southeast in late September 2024, leaving tens of billions of dollars in destruction and killing more than 200 hundred people throughout several states.
Trump called for immediate disaster relief for North Carolina without conditions for aid but suggested that FEMA may no longer be up to the task of providing funds to rebuild areas facing devastation….