ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally overhauling or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “FEMA has turned out to be a disaster … I think we recommend that FEMA go away,” he said during a tour of North Carolina to see damage done by Hurricane Helene last year.
The layperson doesn’t think about FEMA at all unless there’s been a recent disaster. Regular people aren’t making lists of government organizations and cataloging their budgets. If an org hasn’t literally just been in the news, they forget it exists.