'Get FEMA out of Homeland Security': Former FEMA director [View all]
Source: The Hill
05/17/25 8:15 AM ET
Former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Michael Brown, who led the agency during Hurricane Katrina, believes FEMA should be rid of unnecessary bureaucracy.
Brown, who joined “The Hill on NewsNation” to discuss a reporting from The Hill that an internal memo warned “FEMA is not ready” for this hurricane season, says the agency should be independent from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
President Trump said in January that he wanted the states to oversee disaster relief as opposed to the federal government. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, a vocal supporter of the president, has vowed to dismantle the agency.
The former director told host Blake Burman that FEMA being under DHS makes it “a bureaucracy on top of a bureaucracy.” “Make the FEMA administrator under the Stafford Act, like it has always been, directly reportable to the president of the United States,” Brown said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5305312-michael-brown-suggests-fema-dhs-split/
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