President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Monday evening aimed at overhauling the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), shifting more responsibility for disaster response to state and local governments.
The order, which follows recommendations from the conservative Project 2025 blueprint, calls for FEMA to be moved under the Department of the Interior. Supporters argue that decentralizing disaster management will cut bureaucratic delays and improve efficiency in handling emergencies.
More Control for State and Local Governments
Under the new framework, states and local officials will take the lead in disaster response while working more directly with federal officials in Washington. The administration believes this approach will streamline decision-making and reduce federal overreach.
According to the order:
“This Order restores state, local, and individual empowerment in disaster preparedness and response, and injects common sense into infrastructure prioritization and strategic investments through risk-informed decisions that make our infrastructure, communities, and economy more resilient to global and dynamic threats and hazards.”
Reviewing FEMA’s Role
As Fox News Digital reports, the order also mandates a comprehensive review of policies related to disaster preparation and response:
It also will establish the National Resilience Strategy, which will outline the “priorities, means, and ways to advance the resilience of the nation” while pinpointing risks to key national infrastructure and related systems, Fox Digital learned.
Officials will be called to review “all infrastructure, continuity, and preparedness and response policies” to ensure they fall in line with the National Resilience Strategy.
The order will shift the federal government’s “all-hazards” approach to handling disasters to a “risk-informed approach” that will prioritize “resilience and action over mere information sharing,” Fox Digital learned.
Trump has railed against the nation’s response to natural disasters under the Biden administration. He told Fox News’ Sean Hannity just days after his inauguration that “FEMA has not done their job for the last four years” and he would like to see “states take care of their own problems” as they have historically relied on the federal government and its resources and funds to handle disasters.
As the order takes effect, expect increased scrutiny on how states adapt to their expanded responsibilities and whether these changes lead to more effective disaster response efforts.
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Less bureaucracy the better.
We don’t need 4 workers on a job with only one actually doing the physical work.
Americans ( mainly the Conservative Voters): Hello. Extremely important that all President Trump’s Executive Orders be codified into law. Otherwise: a follow-on demoncrat badministration would revoke/wipe-out all his work/President Trump trashing the devastation intentionally waged onto our Country by obidens regime of scoundrels and incompetents.
Needed long overdue