President Donald Trump suggested changes may be coming to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) because he would rather see states handling disaster response rather than the federal government.
When asked about the agency by Fox News’s Sean Hannity in a Wednesday interview in the White House, Trump was critical of FEMA’s response to natural disasters in recent years.
“FEMA has not done their job for the last four years … but unless you have certain types of leadership, it’s really, it gets in the way,” Trump said. “And FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems….