Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Christy Noem has made it clear that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be eliminated.
In the Trump administration cabinet Meeting At the White House, Noem spoke about how the DHS increased deportation by 50%, doing “a staggering job” and praised the U.S. Coast Guard for destroying “historical record of drug blockages.”
“We increased our deportation by 50% in March, in the last few weeks,” Noem said. “So we're not only getting the worst and worst right now, we're making sure we're here and committing crimes in our community have consequences. And the numbers continue to escalate and rise… this week. I'm heading to Elbador. Take me home here.”
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Noem added that the US Coast Guard fleet had been “relocated” to deal with the fentanyl crisis and to ensure it “crossing the southern border.”
“The Coast Guard has done an incredible job. I don't know if you've reported it, but it broke the historical record of the amount of drug blocked they brought in,” Noem added. “We rearranged our fleet to chase the fentanyl crisis and secured the southern border.
As reported by Breitbart News, in an interview on CNN in February, Noem was asked what she would say when President Donald Trump asked if FEMA should be removed. Noem responded by saying, “Yes, I'll remove FEMA like it is today,” describing FEMA as “a bureaucracy that chooses and chooses winners.”
“Yes, I say we'll get rid of FEMA in the way it exists today. People with these types of disasters, like Hurricane Helen and the fires in California, and local officials can make decisions about how to film,” says Noem.
In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity in January, Trump criticized FEMA for complicating “everything,” adding that the agency has “has not been working in the past four years.”
Trump added: “I want to see the nation address its problems.”
