Republican members, including Republican members in areas that are prone to disasters, have supported President Trump's call to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Bureau (FEMA).
“I need a FEMA that seems to have intentionally designed it, which is not what we have right now,” said Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) this week. “It's confusion and very inefficient.”
“We welcome the president's interest in trying to improve the process of providing disaster assistance to those who need the money of taxpayers,”
Trump, a sharp criticism of FEMA's reaction to disasters in the Biden administration, It was shown last week He wants to remove the agency.
“I will also sign the presidential order to start the process of fundamentally overhauling and overhauled FEMA,” he said. “Frankly, I don't think FEMA is good.”
He also said he wanted disaster response to be performed at the state level.
“FEMA will soon be a big debate, because I want to see the state dealing with my problem,” he said. Tell Fox News。
“I love Oklahoma,” he said. “But if they are attacked by a tornado or something, Oklahoma can correct it and the federal government can help them with money.”
Trump has also issued a presidential order to establish a FEMA Review Council to evaluate the proposal to reform institutions.
Emergency administrators and other policy experts have expressed concerns about calling for Trump.
“That would be difficult,” said Lin Bad, Chairman of the U.S. Emergency Management Association, that FEMA could be possible.
“The solution is to improve the distributor,” said Bad, the director of the Wyoming State Director of the National Land Security Bureau.
FEMA is a federal agency in charge of coordinating disaster response. The agency does not work alone. We support the response from state and local governments.
“Their roles in the sharp stage of the disaster are huge,” said James Kendra, director of the Delaware University Disaster Research Center.
He noted that government agencies provide funds to state and local emergency business centers.
Fema The website states that Immediately after the disaster, the agency will expand the team into the community and support people to register for individual support. We provide subsidies to provide funds to things like debris removal.
Kendra said that the agency also had a funding and technical support program “running through all the stages of the disaster.”
Andy Winkler, the director of the Superat Policy Center Housing and Infrastructure Project, described FEMA as a “logistics operation.”
“This is a federal coordinator for all disasters, which helps local governments and states to fill the gap between capacity, and have never experienced disasters before, and they have experienced it. We provide knowledge -based knowledge to similar staff, “he said.
In addition, the funding of the agency supports long -term recovery, and the community supports the reconstruction of infrastructure several months after the disaster.
Senator Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) (RS.C.) was asked to respond to Trump when the state influenced by Hurricane Helen was asked to react to the President's comments on agency. He has expressed his support for establishing an examination council.
“When Helen passed, it was a mixture of FEMA. It's probably good to look at all of these large ticket items,” he said.
“I don't know if there is a better model,” he added.
Senator Tom Tilis (RN.C.) also defended Trump.
“Everyone wants to draw an absurd conclusion, but since the first hurricane I had to deal here, I suggested that FEMA rationalized and controlled more to local governments. “He told the reporters.
“Looking at some of the reform clause that expresses money in the local government, I'm all if he's talking,” said Tilis.
Although Trump's ultimate goal of FEMA is unknown, Shana Udvardy, a senior climate elasticity policy analyst of the Federation of concerns, noted that the president would not simply exclude institutions.
“President Trump cannot abolish or reorganize Fema overnight by signing another presidential order,” says Udvardy. “He needs to pass the parliament, and the parliament must give him authority based on the president's reorbarism.”
But she said, “The bad news … Trump can refuse disaster funds through the disaster declaration process.”
UDVARDY stated that the agency will provide an “important” person in charge.
She said, “Take people to the ground … they play a lot of different roles.”
“Imagine a small countryside or small town in North Carolina, a small town that has just been devastated due to extreme floods and rainfall, and imagine that they will handle such disasters themselves. But it's really ruthless. “
Other policy experts have stated that there are positive reforms that can be performed by institutions, but removing them is not an answer.
“I think the distributor is an excessive growing,” said Winker. “I think something like FEMA reset will be useful. I think it will be useful to think about what kind of changes you need to make.”
“I don't say that all criticisms are fair or valid, but in recent years they are definitely short of staff, misunderstandings, and overload,” he added.
The Bad states that at the National Land Security Agency in the Wyoming State, they may allow money to roll funds from a disaster to another disaster, and to simplify the application for assistance, to improve the response to disasters. Ta.
But ultimately, she said, “Partnership with FEMA is very important, we have to find a way to do both. Supporting the state and with the citizens of our country. I have a good explanation.
