Trump’s plan to eliminate FEMA is a very bad idea; by Jack L. Rozdilsky, York University | The Conversation | January 27, 2025,  An excerpt follows:

“It takes a perverse set of skills for a president to act in a way that squanders the opportunity to genuinely exhibit compassion for disaster victims while also lowering the morale of emergency workers at the same time.

Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish.”