The Trump administration is working to end FEMA.

FEMA is the kind of thing that sounds good in theory to anyone who hasn’t experienced it in practice. And in practice, it’s useless at best, a giant money sink and its actual ability to help anyone is negligible. And like most federal agencies, it quickly became a tool for whatever awful agendas were being pushed at the time. That included global warming and DEI, as we saw with FEMA personnel avoiding homes for political reasons.

What it did not include was any kind of useful help. Anyone who has been through the aftermath of a natural disaster rarely has anything good to say about FEMA. And with good reason. FEMA has proven to be worthless in disaster after disaster. (Much like the Red Cross. Except the RC is very good about fundraising off each other disaster and then pocketing the money.) And its pre-disaster prep, like its supposed post-disaster assistance, is a joke.

FEMA is not fit for its stated purpose. And America will be better off without it. Funding a variety of local volunteer organizations based on clear metrics will be more useful than funding FEMA will.