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Let's talk about Trump’s plan to ‘eliminate FEMA as we know it’...

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump’s plan to ‘eliminate FEMA as we know it’...

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again.

0:06.0

So today, we're going to talk about the Trump administration's plan to eliminate FEMA as we know it.

0:14.0

Y'all aren't going to believe this.

0:17.0

In a new cycle that can only exist under this administration.

0:21.8

Yesterday, we talked about Trump trying to politicize FEMA as a key agency the Democrats are blocking funding for, while highlighting a situation he ignored for a month.

0:34.6

And today, we're talking about the Trump administration's draft plan to, quote,

0:40.5

eliminate FEMA as we know it. You can't make this stuff up. Okay. So a while back,

0:48.1

Trump put together a council to make recommendations on how to best gut the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

0:56.7

The draft with the preliminary recommendations is an 89-page document.

1:02.4

The final report comes out next month, so this is a heads-up, and I guess it could change between

1:09.0

now and then, but we'll go over where we are now.

1:13.4

Trump has already slashed the number of FEMA employees,

1:17.1

and while he tries his political spin on talking about it being a key agency,

1:22.9

his administration is preparing recommendations to cut the number of remaining employees in half.

1:29.9

That's right, in half.

1:32.6

The draft says, quote,

1:34.6

The majority of this reduction is expected to come from its disaster workforce,

1:39.5

which includes temporary, on-call, and permanent personnel deployed to disaster areas.

1:47.7

Remember when Trump campaigned on bizarre and wildly inaccurate claims of FEMA abandoning North

1:54.8

Carolina? Yeah, you only thought it was hard to get in touch with someone then.

2:01.1

The people who show up are the people that would be shown the door.

2:06.3

It would take Americans much longer to get assistance.

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