Axios: Trump suggests states should handle emergency response instead of FEMA [View all]
Axios - Trump suggests states should handle emergency response instead of FEMA
Rebecca Falconer
Updated 6 hours ago
President Trump plans to have a "whole big discussion very shortly" on the Federal Emergency Management Agency because he'd "rather see the states take care of their own problems," according to an interview broadcast Wednesday evening.
Why it matters: Trump has signed a multitude of executive orders since taking office again on Monday and he indicated on Fox News in his first interview since being inaugurated that he could have FEMA in his sights.
Trump and others in the GOP have in recent months complained that FEMA's disaster response has been biased against Republicans.
Driving the news: "The FEMA is getting in the way of everything," Trump said on Fox News' "Hannity."
"FEMA is a whole 'nother discussion because all it does is complicate everything," he told Fox News' Sean Hannity in the prerecorded interview.
"FEMA has not done their job for the last four years."
Trump gave the example of if Oklahoma were hit by a tornado, then the state should be allowed to respond "and then the federal government can help them out with the money."
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