Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be dissolved. During a cabinet meeting at the White House with the Trump administration, Noem highlighted how DHS had significantly ramped up deportations, increasing them by 50 percent. She also commended the U.S. Coast Guard for its exceptional performance, particularly in breaking “historic records in the amount of drug interdictions” they have successfully carried out.
“We are, in the month of March — the last couple of weeks, increased our deportations by 50 percent,” Noem stated. “So, we’re now not even just getting the worst of the worst out, we’re making sure that there’s consequences for being here and committing crimes in our communities. And, the numbers are continuing to escalate and to go up…….this week I’m headed down to El Salvador. I’ll be in the prison where we sent TdA members, I’ll be meeting with the president and also Columbia and Mexico and talking about building these relations so that we can continue to get people out of this country that don’t belong here and take them home.”
Noem went on to mention how the U.S. Coast Guard had reassigned its fleet to address the fentanyl crisis while simultaneously working to strengthen the security of the southern border. She acknowledged the impressive work done by the Coast Guard in this regard.
“The Coast Guard has done phenomenal work — I don’t know if you all have reported on it, but we have broken historic records in the amount of drug interdictions that they have brought in,” Noem remarked. “We’ve repositioned the fleet to go after the fentanyl crisis and go after the southern border and securing it, and they’ve done amazing work as far as that.”
As reported by Breitbart News, Noem was asked during a CNN interview in February what she would say if President Donald Trump inquired whether FEMA should be eliminated. She responded affirmatively, suggesting that FEMA should be removed in its current form. She criticized FEMA for functioning as a “bureaucracy that’s picking and choosing winners.”
Noem explained, “I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today, we still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people that have these types of disasters, like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California but you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how that is deployed, so it can be deployed much quicker. And we don’t need this bureaucracy that’s picking and choosing winners.”
In January, President Trump also expressed dissatisfaction with FEMA during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. He criticized the agency for complicating matters and claimed that FEMA had failed to fulfill its duties over the past four years. Trump added that he would prefer to see individual states take responsibility for their own problems.
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