Trump should 'get rid' of FEMA, Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem says

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Source: USA Today

Trump should 'get rid' of FEMA, Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem says

Riley Beggin, USA TODAY
Mon, February 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM EST 2 min read

WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she would advise President Donald Trump to "get rid of FEMA the way it exists today," highlighting another federal agency that has been a target for the president in recent months.

State and local officials should control how money typically distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is used after natural disasters, Noem told CNN on Sunday.

"We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people who have these types of disasters like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California," Noem told CNN's Dana Bash. "But you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how that is deployed so it can be deployed much quicker."

Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who was tapped to lead the president's efforts to pare down the federal government, have been reevaluating the future of disaster aid, claiming it has been used for unintended purposes.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-rid-fema-homeland-security-160401931.html

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1. she sent national guard to Texas but not to help her own state during a flood

Cosplay governor did not want to spend money helping her own citizens in South Dakota but instead to the Texas border. Do ya think it was due to more national media coverage, and dress up opportunities, by sending the out of the state?

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/06/27/noem-who-sent-guard-troops-to-texas-resists-using-them-for-her-own-states-flooding/