President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted FEMA’s handling of natural disasters during the Biden administration, saying the agency was “getting in the way of everything.”
Trump made the comments during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, suggesting that states should take control of their own disaster response while the federal government could help out with funding. In the same interview, Trump said he plans to visit North Carolina on Friday before heading to California to see the ongoing fire destruction.
“FEMA has not done their job for the last four years. You know, I had FEMA working really well. We had hurricanes in Florida. We had Alabama tornadoes,” Trump said. “But unless you have certain types of leadership, it’s really, it gets in the way. And FEMA is going to be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I’d rather see the states take care of…
