"FEMA is not good": Trump looking into ending federal disaster aid agency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : In an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity earlier this week, President Trump said the organization was "getting in the way of everything" and floated a "whole big discussion" on eliminating FEMA.
47% : When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it, meaning the state takes care of it," Trump said on Friday.
37% : States are not required to accept FEMA help, but the agency received more than 180 disaster and assistance declarations in 2024 alone.
34% : " Trump is not alone in seeking to strong-arm California.
30% : In California, we want them to have voter ID so the people have a voice, because right now, the people don't have a voice because you don't know who's voting, and it's very corrupt," Trump said.
29% : Without FEMA, Trump told Hannity, states could "take care of their own problems."
28% : In 2018, Trump briefly withheld disaster aid from California until aides showed him data demonstrating the presence of his supporters in the state.
26% : During a visit to hurricane-ravaged North Carolina on Friday, Trump said he would soon sign an executive order "fundamentally reforming and overhauling" the disaster relief agency.
23% : " Trump does not have the authority to shutter FEMA entirely.
23% : Trump boosted a false claim that disaster relief funds were spent on undocumented immigrants days before the election, and widespread paranoia boosted by Trumpworld led to confrontations between militias and federal aid workers.

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