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As Breitbart News reported, in a February CNN interview, Noem was asked what she would say if President Trump asked her if he should eliminate FEMA. Noem responded:
https://twitter.com/politstrip/status/1904255355678593282
> “I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today, we still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people that have these types of disasters, like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California but you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how that is deployed, so it can be deployed much quicker. And we don’t need this bureaucracy that’s picking and choosing winners.”
🚨#BREAKING: President Trump's DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, has called for the elimination of FEMA after Elon Musk's post on X that:
"FEMA is broken…"
"Get rid of FEMA the way it exists today. We don't need this bureaucracy picking and choosing winners." pic.twitter.com/YABfBaxhDh
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) February 9, 2025
In January, during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Trump criticized FEMA for complicating “everything,” and added that the agency “has not done their job for the last four years.” Trump added that he would “rather see the states take care of their own problems.”
