Michael Loewinger

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At the beginning of his second term, amid all the chaos of the incoming administration, President Trump made his first trip to North Carolina.

You were treated very badly by the previous administration and

Before he got on Air Force One, Trump called a press conference on the tarmac and casually dropped this bomb.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the agency that stands between America and climate destruction.

I think, frankly, FEMA is not good.

The agency that helps people rebuild after they've lost everything.

The agency that, while he was rambling, was providing aid to Californians suffering through the historic L.A.

wildfires, as well as Helene survivors right there in North Carolina.

It seemed like, with a snap of his fingers, the president would be happy to see FEMA vanish.

I learned that employees at FEMA broke down in tears when they heard the news.

Some replayed the president's speech over and over.

Anxious members of Congress spent the day calling into the agency's headquarters with a barrage of questions.

Is the president serious?

What happens when the next hurricane hits?

I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today.

Kristi Noem, former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Before she got the boot this spring, Noem effectively set fire to FEMA.

Preparedness programs were slashed.

Unqualified leaders cycled in and out.