After he criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency on visits to North Carolina and California earlier this trip, President Donald Trump signed an executive order setting up a work force.
A 20-member process power called the Federal Emergency Management Agency Review Council will be co-chaired by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a result of the executive order signed on Sunday night. Other users who have been appointed by Trump may include those who are accountable to the federal government and who are not.
The council’s goal is to produce a report in the following year that includes an analysis of FEMA’s response to disasters in the last four decades, including whether it is adequately staffed, a comparison of FEMA’s actions to catastrophe with local and state responses, a historical context of FEMA’s foundation and how the nation responded to disasters before its existence, an assessment of whether FEMA can exist in support of states ‘ disaster relief responses, rather than substituting them, and an examination of the arguments for and
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According to the order, the government will hold its first public gathering in 90 days, and the review may be expected 180 days afterward.
Trump’s order follows intense criticism of the agency this weekend, saying it has “let the country down” and is “incompetently run”. The agency has “lost mission focus,” according to the executive order, which states that it has “lost its scope and authority” by “diverting limited staff and resources to support missions beyond its scope and authority, and spending well over a billion dollars to welcome illegal aliens.” It also says there are” serious concerns of political bias” at FEMA, referencing an incident where a supervisor advised her team to “avoid” Florida homes “advertising , Trump”.
