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On this week's On the Media from WNYC,

the Trump administration has threatened to kill,

or at least maim, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

But FEMA isn't going down without a fight.

I'll also be signed an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA.

I think, frankly, FEMA's not good.

We were tasked to write a memo on how we would abolish FEMA.

He proceeded to berate me over the fact that the media got a hold of a story and was running

a topic that they felt was too sensitive and not fit for public domain.

The topic was abolishing FEMA.

Correct.

President Trump has just announced that Homeland Security Secretary Christy Knoam is out of a job.

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