U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Friday to sign an executive order to overhaul or eliminate the main federal agency that responds to natural disasters, saying he preferred that states be given federal money to handle disasters themselves.

Trump suggested some states were more deserving of aid than others, and that the feds could step out of relief role

Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”

President Donald Trump said he wants to do away with FEMA at a visit in Asheville, North Carolina which was hit hard by Hurricane Helene.

The president said the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been too bureaucratic and slow in its response to disasters.

Notably, Trump’s executive order on FEMA does not seek to eliminate the agency; Congress would need to act to do that. The order instead underscores Trump’s interest in turning to outside advisers and private-sector companies to fill some typically governmental functions as he seeks to quickly accomplish his second-term goals.

President Donald Trump is planning to travel to California to survey the wildfire damage in his first presidential visit since his inauguration.

I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said. Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.

President Trump is taking the first trip of his second administration to visit communities recovering from recent disasters. He'll soon tour southern California, where wildfires killed dozens and wiped out neighborhoods,

The Biden-era programs were a self-service scheduling app that Trump shut down on Monday, and an initiative that let in some migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti. They had allowed more than a million people to enter the country temporarily.

President Donald Trump targeted FEMA on his first trip since taking office, visiting states that have been hit by natural disasters.