President Trump in a briefing with hurricane-hit residents of North Carolina suggested his administration may be “getting rid of FEMA.”
“I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away, and we pay directly,” Trump said. “We pay a percentage to the state. But the state should fix this.”
“FEMA has been a very big disappointment. They cost a tremendous amount of money. It’s very bureaucratic and it’s very slow,” he added before joking: “Other than that, we’re very happy with them.”
“Some residents still don’t have hot water or drinking water or anything else,” the president said earlier of the state of destruction in western North Carolina around four months since Hurricane Helene.
