DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Reveals Plans to Eliminate FEMA

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Reveals Plans to Eliminate FEMA

Elizabeth Weibel 24 Mar 2025

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be eliminated.

During a Trump administration cabinet meeting at the White House, Noem spoke about how DHS had increased deportations by 50 percent, and praised the United States Coast Guard for doing “phenomenal work” and breaking “historic records in the amount of drug interdictions” they have “brought in.”

“We are, in the month of March — the last couple of weeks, increased our deportations by 50 percent,” Noem said. “So, we’re now not even just getting the worst of the worst out, we’re making sure that there’s consequences for being here and committing crimes in our communities. And, the numbers are continuing to escalate and to go up…….this week I’m headed down to El Salvador. I’ll be in the prison where we sent TdA members, I’ll be meeting with the president and also Columbia and Mexico and talking about building these relations so that we can continue to get people out of this country that don’t belong here and take them home.”

Noem added that the U.S. Coast Guard’s fleet had been “repositioned” in order to address the fentanyl crisis and to also “go after the southern border” and to secure it.

“The Coast Guard has done phenomenal work — I don’t know if you all have reported on it, but we have broken historic records in the amount of drug interdictions that they have brought in,” Noem added. “We’ve repositioned the fleet to go after the fentanyl crisis and go after the southern border and securing it, and they’ve done amazing work as far as that.”

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Beshear: I Don’t Want to End FEMA, Their Current Work in KY ‘One of the Best FEMA Operations’ I’ve Seen

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) reacted to the Trump administration’s plans to eliminate FEMA by stating that he doesn’t want to axe the agency and the current FEMA operation in Kentucky is “one of the best FEMA operations I’ve witnessed.”

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Beshear: I Don’t Want to End FEMA, Their Current Work in KY ‘One of the Best FEMA Operations’ I’ve Seen

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) reacted to the Trump administration’s plans to eliminate FEMA by stating that he doesn’t want to axe the agency and the current FEMA operation in Kentucky is “one of the best FEMA operations I’ve witnessed.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/03/24/beshear-i-dont-want-to-end-fema-their-current-work-in-ky-one-of-the-best-fema-operations-ive-seen/

Come on Andy, tell us the truth!

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For the longest time I have advocated Border Patrol and Coast Guard being combined, however that works, with Border Patrol gaining access to military craft, and military radar and weapons.

But I do not join with the dissolution of FEMA, albeit that it has become a political tool. One of the few functions that the federal government should provide is that disaster relief, ready in the wings, to stand in the gap where even a state and its resources are knocked flat.

Overhaul it, sure. Tighten it up, YES. remove its political attributes, YES. But it needs to be there, and running right.

[Timber Rattler]

For the longest time I have advocated Border Patrol and Coast Guard being combined, however that works, with Border Patrol gaining access to military craft, and military radar and weapons.

But I do not join with the dissolution of FEMA, albeit that it has become a political tool. One of the few functions that the federal government should provide is that disaster relief, ready in the wings, to stand in the gap where even a state and its resources are knocked flat.

Overhaul it, sure. Tighten it up, YES. remove its political attributes, YES. But it needs to be there, and running right.

Agreed.  FEMA needs to be purged and reformed but not eliminated because many natural disasters are just outside the ability of states to cope without federal support, such as the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, the various hurricanes that strike regionally across state lines, and volcanoes (like Mount St. Helens and Yellowstone when it finally blows).