From CNN: Everyone agrees FEMA needs to change. The question is how.

” Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.

Increasingly frequent weather disasters have strained its workforce and drained its Congress-funded coffers. And, since the first Trump administration, the agency has had further strain from bankrolling Covid recovery and paying states to shelter migrants.

Disaster-ravaged Americans speak of being thwarted by bureaucracy and red tape in their lowest, darkest moments. Republicans are calling for the agency to be overhauled and President Donald Trump on Friday suggested maybe FEMA shouldn’t exist. “