{"id":137781,"date":"2025-01-26T00:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T00:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/can-president-trump-get-rid-of-fema-what-we-know-hollywood-life\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T00:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T00:42:52","slug":"can-president-trump-get-rid-of-fema-what-we-know-hollywood-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/can-president-trump-get-rid-of-fema-what-we-know-hollywood-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Can President Trump Get Rid of FEMA? What We Know \u2013 Hollywood Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"entry-media edge-to-edge entry-media--lead-image\" aria-describedby=\"lead-image-credit\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper image-wrapper--widescreen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2195146861-e1737834427179.jpg?resize=384%2C216\" class=\"attachment-hl-384x216-tc size-hl-384x216-tc wp-post-image\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump speaks during a fire emergency briefing at Station 69 in Pacific Palisades, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 24, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN \/ AFP)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2195146861-e1737834427179.jpg?resize=384%2C216 384w, https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2195146861-e1737834427179.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2195146861-e1737834427179.jpg?resize=1536%2C864 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 670px\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption id=\"lead-image-credit\">Image Credit: AFP by way of Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- .entry-media --><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-2\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/celeb\/donald-trump\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> urged on Friday that he was contemplating \u201cgetting rid of\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2025\/01\/24\/fema-number-of-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)<\/a> after visiting catastrophe zones in California and North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-3\">\u201cFEMA has been a very big disappointment,\u201d the Republican president remarked. \u201cIt\u2019s very bureaucratic. And it\u2019s very slow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Find out extra beneath.<\/p>\n<h2>What Does FEMA Do?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\">The company was designed to assist the United States put together for and recuperate from numerous pure disasters. FEMA works with native governments to assist those that have been impacted by a catastrophe, akin to shedding a house in a wildfire or a hurricane.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-10\">FEMA solely steps into a neighborhood state of affairs when a state makes a proper request to the federal government for federal help or when the pure catastrophe overwhelms native officers\u2019 talents. The president should then signal a declaration affirming that the world would obtain help.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">FEMA is a part of the Department of Homeland Security and depends on an annual working funds and catastrophe reduction fund, each of which Congress should replenish annually to help states in catastrophe restoration and preparedness efforts.<\/p>\n<h2>Can Trump Get Rid of FEMA?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">President Trump doesn&#8217;t have the unilateral authority to get rid of FEMA, in response to present federal legal guidelines.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">While the president can suggest funds cuts or modifications to companies, the final word authority to move legal guidelines\u2014akin to those who might reorganize and even get rid of FEMA\u2014lies with Congress. To obtain such a change, Trump would want help from lawmakers, however each Republican and Democratic lawmakers have historically backed FEMA.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">Trump has additionally expressed help for limiting the federal authorities\u2019s function in catastrophe response, a sentiment he reiterated to reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\">\u201cI\u2019d like to see the states take care of disasters,\u201d he stated in North Carolina. \u201cLet the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-10\">\u201cYou want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA. And then FEMA gets here and they don\u2019t know the area. They\u2019ve never been to the area, and they want to give you rules that you\u2019ve never heard about. They want to bring people that aren\u2019t as good as the people you already have. And FEMA has turned out to be a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Image Credit: AFP by way of Getty Images President Donald Trump urged on Friday that he was contemplating \u201cgetting rid of\u201d FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) after visiting catastrophe zones in California and North Carolina. \u201cFEMA has been a very big disappointment,\u201d the Republican president remarked. \u201cIt\u2019s very bureaucratic. And it\u2019s very slow.\u201d Find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8557,60,98,1813,8556,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-137781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-fema","9":"tag-hollywood","10":"tag-life","11":"tag-president","12":"tag-rid","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}