LISTEN NOW | FEMA has long been touted as the cornerstone of America’s disaster response framework, yet its track record—most recently during the catastrophic flooding in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and northern Georgia—reveals a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy that often hinders more than it helps. President Trump’s daring proposal to dismantle FEMA’s primacy and empower states as lead responders, with the federal government relegated to a supporting role, is not only a pragmatic response to FEMA’s repeated failures but a necessary restructuring to better serve the American people.