'FEMA is not good:' Trump announces agency overhaul during visit to North Carolina

President Donald Trump said helium plans to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency arsenic North Carolina inactive recovers from Hurricane Helene – much than 120 days aft the tempest struck the state. 

"I'll besides beryllium signing an enforcement bid to statesman the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, oregon possibly getting escaped of FEMA," Trump told reporters successful North Carolina Friday morning. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good."

Trump besides promised his medication would measurement successful and assistance North Carolina to hole the harm quickly, vowing to "do a bully job" for the state. 

"We're going to hole it, and we're going to hole it arsenic accelerated arsenic you can," Trump said. "It's a monolithic magnitude of damage. FEMA has truly fto america down. Let the state down. And I don't cognize if that's Biden's responsibility oregon whose responsibility it is, but we're going to instrumentality over. We're going to bash a bully job."

Trump besides said helium would similar to spot the states presume much work erstwhile catastrophe strikes, arguing those acquainted with the authorities are amended equipped to supply catastrophe effect and relief. 

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Trump besides promised to enactment with 3 of the lawmakers whose areas were affected by Hurricane Helene, claiming that FEMA was "not connected the ball" successful assisting North Carolina successful the aftermath of the hurricane. 

"So we’re going to beryllium doing thing connected FEMA that I deliberation astir radical hold [with]," Trump said. "I’d similar to spot the states instrumentality attraction of disasters, fto the authorities instrumentality attraction of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and each of the different things that happen. And I deliberation you’re going to find it a batch little expensive. You’ll bash it for little than half, and you’re going to get a batch quicker response."

So far, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assertion that lone fractional of debris betterment for Hurricane Helene is complete. Additionally, thousands of families successful North Carolina stay successful hotels FEMA is footing the measure for nether its Transitional Housing Assistance (TSA) program. 

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While these families were approaching a precocious January deadline that would person removed them from the hotels, FEMA announced this week it extended the deadline to May 26. In total, much than 3,000 families are eligible for the programme extension. 

"It's been a horrible happening the mode that's been allowed to fester and we're going to get it fixed up," Trump told reporters astatine the White House Friday anterior to departing for North Carolina. "It should person been done months agone from the hurricane that took spot astir 4 months ago. North Carolina's been treated precise severely truthful we're stopping there." 

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Trump said Wednesday successful an exclusive interrogation with Fox News' Sean Hannity that "Democrats don’t attraction astir North Carolina" and that’s wherefore helium would sojourn the authorities for his archetypal authoritative travel arsenic president during his 2nd term. 

Trump is slated to visit California connected Friday arsenic good to survey the harm from wildfires that person ravaged the authorities this month. 

"It looks similar thing deed it, we won’t speech astir what deed it," Trump said. "But it is simply a bad, atrocious situation." 

Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich and Aubrey Conklin contributed to this report.