U.S. Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards will serve on the "Council to Assess the Federal Management Agency," which was established via executive order on Jan. 24.

President Trump said he is considering 'getting rid of' the Federal Emergency Management Agency, on a visit to hurricane-ravaged North Carolina.

Governors and state legislatures may have to bolster their natural disaster response and recovery efforts in the coming years as President Donald Trump looks for ways to shift the federal government’s role onto states.

President Trump told hurricane survivors in North Carolina Friday that he may be “getting rid of FEMA” — while saying he would end the “betrayal and neglect” of

Western North Carolina's Congressman, U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, has been asked by President Trump to help overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thanks to his appointment to a newly created FEMA task force.

FLETCHER, N.C. — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the nation's central organization for responding to disasters.

“FEMA has turned out to be a disaster,” Trump said in North Carolina on Friday while on a multistate tour to areas still recovering from the effects of last year’s Hurricane Helene and the ongoing wildfires near Los Angeles. “I think we recommend that FEMA go away.”

President Donald Trump caught his own administration off guard last week by suggesting that the nation’s primary disaster response agency might simply “go away.”

Last week, while visiting areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene in my home state of North Carolina, President Donald Trump proposed “getting rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Then he signed an executive order establishing a task force to decide the agency's fate.

U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, a Republican from the 11th Congressional District which includes McDowell County, has been appointed to a newly created task force for the overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Edwards’ office announced the appointment by President Donald Trump in a news release.

DOJ didn't identify the fired employees, and it's not yet clear whether they'll challenge their terminations under civil service protection rules.