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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Reveals Plans to Eliminate FEMA
Breitbart ^ | 24 Mar 2025 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL

Posted on 03/25/2025 10:04:34 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be eliminated.

During a Trump administration cabinet meeting at the White House, Noem spoke about how DHS had increased deportations by 50 percent, and praised the United States Coast Guard for doing “phenomenal work” and breaking “historic records in the amount of drug interdictions” they have “brought in.”

“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.”

WATCH — FEMA Administrator Reveals 20 Homes “Were Skipped” in Hurricane Aftermath:

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.”

As Breitbart News reported, during an interview on CNN in February,

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Noem said, “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, during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Trump criticized FEMA for complicating “everything,” and added that the agency “has not done their job for the last four years.”

Trump added that he would “rather see the states take care of their own problems.”

1 posted on 03/25/2025 10:04:34 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

IIRC, there’s local FEMA and FEDERAL FEMA....why??


2 posted on 03/25/2025 10:05:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SoConPubbie

I cannot find it, but there was a Playboy article in the early 80s talking about this new agency called FEMA and how it was the blueprint for a police state. I wish I could find it, it all came true in spades.

I wish I could remember who playmate of the month was than I could maybe zero in on the issue.


3 posted on 03/25/2025 10:09:21 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: SoConPubbie
{DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Reveals Plans to Eliminate FEMA}

EXCELLENT!!



Seems rather a worthless agency especially of late
4 posted on 03/25/2025 10:09:46 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SoConPubbie

People in Florida like the debris pickups after hurricanes.

It is my understanding that FEMA is overstaffed.

“much quicker”

The debris contracts are let by the county I believe. FEMA just picks up the tab.


5 posted on 03/25/2025 10:10:30 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SoConPubbie

Good choice. They brought it on themselves.


6 posted on 03/25/2025 10:10:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: DesertRhino

FEMA has been around since the beginning of the Cold War, it’s original propose was not disaster relief, but providing a emergency shelter for the countries leaders in case of some sort of attack, like nuclear war.
Look it up.


7 posted on 03/25/2025 10:11:49 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: SaveFerris

I certainly hope so. They screwed over W and gave the rats an opening to pounce on him. Didn’t help with the Brownie doing-a-good-job quote. So when they screw up under Biden it’s up to the FNC’s out there to suggest there’s a pattern.

We don’t need FEMA. The perfect storm has to set itself up. Same with Education.


8 posted on 03/25/2025 10:13:23 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Sacajaweau

Until Biden FEMA was doing alright. I am against eliminating it. Some disasters that hit multiple states need more of a response than states alone can provide. I am sure there are other federal agencies which could be done without more readily.


9 posted on 03/25/2025 10:13:54 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

“DesertRhino
FEMA has been around since the beginning of the Cold War, it’s original propose was not disaster relief, but providing a emergency shelter for the countries leaders in case of some sort of attack, like nuclear war.
Look it up.”

I did. You are wrong.


10 posted on 03/25/2025 10:16:27 AM PDT by TexasGator (111111111/)
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To: SoConPubbie

FEMA + Bleeping Every Middleclass American


11 posted on 03/25/2025 10:16:52 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SoConPubbie

I really hope Trump has HIS FEMA agents helping those whose homes were destroyed by the latest round of tornados. BE there and send in many people to help clean up. Give $ to support and hotels till work is done or, if they move, give them a loan at 0% or something.


12 posted on 03/25/2025 10:19:27 AM PDT by Singermom
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History of FEMA

Another Jimmy Carter special.

Once created, it just grew and grew.

13 posted on 03/25/2025 10:22:57 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: SoConPubbie

...and the good people of The Carolinas applaud her!


14 posted on 03/25/2025 10:26:17 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

No, FEMA was created by Jimmy Carter in 1979.


15 posted on 03/25/2025 10:27:35 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: SoConPubbie

Yes. As one who’s worked in EM, this is good news...sort of.

Each region of the US has its own challenges, regions which should be established with councils who comprise the states in each region, some overlapping for obvious reasons. The councils would comprise existing EM staff of respective state governments, establishing plans and coordinated by a ‘FEMA-like’ office. Coordination ONLY, not response. That’s up to the states (aside from federal $$ aid, etc.).

That’s just a broad stroke, not a blueprint. It’s stupid that each state wastes resources for unique in-state planning when they should be coordinating for regional disasters more than that to which I have been privy in the past.

And dumber that FEMA staff ever thought that they could manage even a single state emergency, proof in the pudding & all...

That stated, given all the talk of the ‘big ones’ on the west coast, I am unaware that any of the 3 states unilaterally established anything but evacuation routes. If Cascadia does occur in my lifetime, not a soul of the public knows where to go. Rather, they teach ‘resilience’ and kick the can to FEMA.

It’s rather pathetic. Flame on.


16 posted on 03/25/2025 10:38:08 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SoConPubbie

San Fran and Chicago burnt down and were rebuilt when there was no FEMA; how did they do it???


17 posted on 03/25/2025 10:40:01 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: DesertRhino
I wish I could remember who playmate of the month was then. ...

It should have been Ginger Allen.

18 posted on 03/25/2025 10:43:57 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: lastchance
Until Biden FEMA was doing alright. I am against eliminating it. Some disasters that hit multiple states need more of a response than states alone can provide. I am sure there are other federal agencies which could be done without more readily.

Emergencies, and their responses, know no boundaries. A coordinated, multistate, multiagency planning, preparedness and response capability continues to be a prudent need.

That said, when FEMA gets so corrupted that it restricts needed aid to political allies, and (IIRC) sends illegal aliens to lux hotels, then they have to expect consequences.

I would love to see a leaner, more responsive FEMA survive. Hurricanes, fires, earthquakes and other disasters require national-level responses and coordination.

19 posted on 03/25/2025 10:58:19 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: SoConPubbie

Good idea. FEMA is broke anyway so why feed it more tax dollars to manage incompetently.


20 posted on 03/25/2025 11:49:03 AM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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