ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally overhauling or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “FEMA has turned out to be a disaster … I think we recommend that FEMA go away,” he said during a tour of North Carolina to see damage done by Hurricane Helene last year.

  • @Stovetop
    24•4 days ago

    Florida’s about to be unaffordable for millions of Americans. FEMA’s NFIP program had been disproportionately keeping cost of flood insurance low for millions of people in hurricane/flood regions along the Gulf coast, but now the market alone will dictate rates if FEMA is taken out of the picture.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•4 days ago

      now the market alone will dictate rates if FEMA is taken out of the picture

      Nah, Florida will just pass a law making it illegal for insurers to leave the state. Surely that will work!

      • @sudo42English
        5•4 days ago

        They’d save more effort by making it illegal for hurricanes to hit Florida. Borrow Trump’s marker and make them hit Alabama instead.

      • @Maggoty
        1•4 days ago

        Didn’t they actually pass something near to that already?

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 days ago

      Don’t worry. They’ll make sure handouts to red states won’t stop. It’s only blue states that’ll get fucked.