DHS Secretary Noem: ‘We’re Going to Eliminate FEMA’
Noem did not offer details about any plans regarding FEMA but it’s obviously on the agenda.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem dropped the bomb, saying that her department would eliminate FEMA.
Noem commented during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump but did not elaborate on any plans.
“So we’re going to eliminate FEMA,” said Noem.
That is all Noem said about it, but still. That’s YUGE.
FEMA has come under fire since its disastrous response to Hurricane Helene in the Carolinas last September.
FEMA said it didn’t have money. But when former President Joe Biden kept sending billions to Ukraine and FEMA sent millions to New York City for illegal aliens, everyone exploded. I don’t blame them.
I mean, if you’re going to tax me to death, then at least send the money to people in America who need it.
It was not until Trump got into office that the federal government really paid attention to the affected people.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announces the elimination of FEMA at President Trump’s cabinet meeting today pic.twitter.com/lzipHx6x7L
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Noem spent most of her time explaining how DHS has made progress in deporting illegal aliens and seizing drugs from the cartels. From Breitbart:
“We are, in the month of March — the last couple of weeks, increased our deportations by 50 percent,” Noem said. “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 added that the U.S. Coast Guard’s fleet had been “repositioned” in order to address the fentanyl crisis and to also “go after the southern border” and to secure it.
“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 added. “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.”
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Three separate issues
A) whether the agency should be eliminated – a policy argument
B) whether the agency can be reorganized to be more effective – A policy argument
C) whether the executive branch can eliminate or reorganize an agency created by an act of congress – a constitutional argument.
My responses
A) & B) probably best to revamp the organization to make it effective
C ) The executive branch is limited by the laws passed by congress
C) Moot point. Trump has already shown how to hollow out an agency like DOE to a zombie agency without “eliminating” it.
Just to clarify
I am in favor in reorganizing FEMA into an effective organization.
One of the problems with much of the federal government is that the agencies have development into a cesspool of graft / self interest / self dealing / leftwing-woke advocacy, etc.,
Efficiency isn’t the problem.
Constitutionality is. All of that graft and power is.
Eliminate its power and align it with the Constitution, at its smallest possible size, and the efficiency will take care of itself.
Determine if there is constitutional support for an agency even if congress created it. Most agencies of the Federal government should consist of a small number of people who create policy frameworks for the states to implement if they agree.
At best.
There is no constitutional authority for DOGE, as much as I like what they are doing.
“…as much as I like what they are doing.”
Objection, Counselor. Assumes facts not in evidence.
And quit upvoting yourself.
They are performing a function delegated to the executive branch, under the direction of the executive branch. No further constitutional authority is required.
Regarding A, did she really say getting rid of FEMA in its entirety, or more like “Get rid of FEMA the way it exists today,” ?
It seems like that little afterthought: “as we know it” or “as it exists today” has been left off many news reports.
Agree with your comment. There are natural disasters that cross state boundaries or are too large for a state to handle. A federal agency is needed but it needs to focused and staffed appropriate with competent people and not DEI hires with axes to grind.
100% agree. The USA is almost as large as Europe, which has 50 countries. Natural disasters can be too large to expect any one state to have and maintain the necessary resources, for random or rare occurrences – or affect multiple states, as noted.
No because when the Dems get back their power, let’s be real, Americans are not bright, 30,000 went to see AOC/Bernie at one event
They will super charge FEMA to rip us off again
Send fema to the states to address their situations/disasters
I think she should give all of our confidential military information to the Atlantic and other left-wing media. That is what she is good about.
Izzat so? Care to post proof that Noem gave “all of our confidential military information to the Atlantic and other left-wing media?”
Go on and do it.
I think she should inform Tren de Aragua where your momma lives.
since congress wont act
cut it down to one person with a paycheck of $1
kristi>>call me
You wake up nearly every morning to a new piece of news, about something this ONE President is finally doing, another thing that almost every Republican voter for the past 50 years has wanted done, but for some unknown reason none of the Republicans they ever elected ever took step one to pursue.
Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I am free at last.
trump forcing establishment gop to show themselves as either maga or comrades of the left when it comes to fiscal conservatism
Trump forcing the Establishment Republicans to acknowledge Russia as our superiors. Trump wants the world to consist of billionaire oligarchs like him, Putin, and XI. They will carve up the world for themselves. I guarantee you that none of them are reading your posts on LI.
“I guarantee you that none of them are reading your posts on LI.”
Saith Junior, a pyrsyn of mediocre intelligence and not a single shred of self-awareness.
Why are you here?
What are you, like 12 years old? Some lefty says “Oligarchs!!!” and “Rushaaaa!!!” you sit up and bark.
JR didn’t even know he responded to dog whistles
More proof that unicorns hear them too.
FEMA has power to overrule the Constitution of the United States of America.
Good riddance.
Really?
FEMA was paying uncounted BILLIONS funding illegals and paying for them to live in luxury hotels while it gave people in NC $700.
The organization as it exists it totally unsalvageable.
Eliminate it, fire every single person that works there, and THEN we can talk about maybe rebuilding it from the ground up with a fresh start.
Eliminate any dept./ A gency that did not exist in 1960 ish
Correction: that didn’t exist in 1911
And half all other budgets Except defense.
the left has shown time and again they are for criminality
thats not an opinion that is a fact
so why even give them the time of day!???
Whatta we need an Emergency Management agency fer anyway? Most emergencies handle themselves pretty dang well without gov’t involvement.
Now, the aftermath might be a diff’rent story….
(But gubmint is still gonna screw that up.)
Honestly, FEMA needs to be 1 or 2 folks from each branch concerned: DOEnergy, FCC, military/DHS, and some managers to help organize the locals – just to make sure they’re not stepping on each other. They need to be there to make phone calls/emails to the folks who need to accomplish things.
“Hey, can you call Elon and get that emergency Starlink thing turned on?”
“Hey, can we get another unit of Seabees? We definitely need more bulldozers here.”
“Sheriff asks if we can move a few soldiers over to the south side to help him with looters.”
Better yet, “Sheriff says he’s got some out-of-towners wanting to militia up and patrol the east side. He wonders if we can vet them for him.”
Those are the things a management agency should be doing.
That and a checkbook to assist. Maybe a bit more staff but this is an example of something the States need to be in the lead on. I don’t think most folks fully appreciate that getting rid of a Federal activity and pushing it to the States will result in less Federal spending but increased State spending and increased State taxation to pay for it.
Well sure. The budget is already there, its just poorly and no doubt corruptly spent. Hand the check to the states impacted and let them deal with the actual purchasing and the blowback from their voters in state.
Yeah pretty much. What I mean is gut the mass of the Federal employees and associated overhead at FEMA. Keep it as something like a Permanent Task Force rather than an Agency. Then use common sense and look back over the previous two decades and get an average annual amount for disaster relief to budget for as a ‘contingency’. Adjust for inflation and make it a rolling 20 year average with the unused funds automatically used to retire federal debt.
Let the States spin up and increase their own State emergency management operations to put personnel, trailers, pre positioned stocks of MRE,.water, cots and so on paid for.by State taxes. States already do a pretty dang good job of cooperation with each other to use NG resources and utility crews across an impacted region. This is really an extension of that but at State expense for the baseline with the Feds paying some overtime costs, additional support from AD forces and direct financial assistance to impacted Citizens.
Mission creep.
Like when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee graduated to engaging in riots.
Considering the crap job they’ve done over recent years, I am totally with you. It does no good to have a disaster management agency that’s terrible at managing disasters
The agency needs to be eliminated or the next dem/commie will hire more deadwood and make it harder to get rid of. The dems are the enemy and will do whatever it takes to make things worse. Kill off fema and let the states handle whatever, money can be doled out for emergencies but having one agency handle it all leads to corruption as we are seeing in all other agencies
I’m near the disaster zone in Western NC/Eastern TN. Everything you heard about FEMA and the Feds that the legacy media and Biden Administration labelled as a conspiracy was absolutely. From seizing supplies to stopping military convoys heading into the area. All of it.
Eliminate FEMA? But who’s going to withhold federal disaster relief from conservatives now?
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