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 Donald Trump suggested on Jan. 24, that he would sign an executive order to begin the process of “overhauling FEMA” while speaking at a briefing on North Carolina’s hurricane recovery.

After landing in Asheville, Trump reiterated his frequent critique of the federal hurricane response: FEMA “has really let us down, let the country down,” he said, per NPR’s Asma Khalid and Deepa Shivaram.