{"id":2428550,"date":"2025-04-28T23:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T03:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-fema-review-council-members-to-fix-broken-system-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T03:09:14","slug":"trump-announces-fema-review-council-members-to-fix-broken-system-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-fema-review-council-members-to-fix-broken-system-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces FEMA Review Council members to fix \u2018broken system\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-announces-fema-review-council-members-to-fix-broken-system-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2428550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump has appointed 13 new members to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Review Council, which is tasked with addressing issues within the agency. This declaration was made in conjunction with a january <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-parliament-unloads-on-biden-biden-may-have-condemned-the-world-to-chinese-domination-in-future\/\" title=\"British Parliament Unloads On Biden: \u2018Biden May Have Condemned The World To Chinese Domination In Future\u2019\">24 executive order<\/a> aimed at reforming FEMA,highlighting concerns about its performance during disasters,including a response to Hurricane Helene. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">appointed members include notable figures<\/a> such as defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi noem, and Governors Greg Abbott and Glenn Youngkin. Trump emphasized their qualifications, describing them as &#8220;Top Experts,&#8221; and expressed confidence that they would help &#8220;fix a terribly broken system.&#8221; The council is expected to produce a report in one year assessing FEMA&#8217;s disaster response over the past four years and its overall effectiveness. The controversial appointments are likely to draw scrutiny due to their history and positions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump announces FEMA Review Council members to fix &lsquo;broken system&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1991395\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced the 13 &ldquo;new&rdquo; members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/a> Review Council, intended to address concerns with the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3301146\/trump-takes-aim-at-fema-in-new-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"announced the formation\">announced the formation<\/a> of the council in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/council-to-assess-the-federal-emergency-management-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jan. 24 Executive Order\">Jan. 24 executive order<\/a>. On Monday, he appointed 13 people to the council, including two of his Cabinet members. He praised the appointees as &ldquo;Top Experts&rdquo; who are &ldquo;Highly Respected&rdquo; by their peers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3394374\/joy-reid-fact-checked-claims-roman-empire-fall-lack-of-diversity\/\">Joy Reid is fact-checked on claims linking Roman Empire&rsquo;s fall to lack of diversity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3394290\/trump-jab-taylor-swift-eagles-white-house-visit\/\">Trump takes jab at Taylor Swift during Eagles&#8217; White House visit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3394111\/trump-philadelphia-eagles-white-house-super-bowl-win\/\">Trump welcomes Philadelphia Eagles to White House to celebrate Super Bowl win<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Included were Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as well as Govs. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Glenn Youngkin (R-VA). <\/p>\n<p>Trump also touted the inclusions of former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie, Texas Division of Emergency Management chief W. Nim Kidd, Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, Mark Cooper, Bob Fenton, and Evan Greenberg. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know that the new Members will work hard to fix a terribly broken System, and return power to State Emergency Managers, who will help, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. Congratulations to all!&rdquo; Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s January executive action cited problems with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3291795\/helene-fema-asked-for-september-date-on-temporary-sheltering-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FEMA&rsquo;s response to Hurricane Helene<\/a> as a reason for needing an overhaul of the agency. He claimed political bias and support for illegal immigrants as necessitating an intervention.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are serious concerns of political bias in FEMA,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-launches-gender-inclusive-bathroom-app\/\" title=\"Harvard Launches \u2018Gender Inclusive\u2019 Bathroom App\">executive order read<\/a>. &ldquo;Indeed, at least one former FEMA responder has stated that FEMA managers directed her to avoid homes of individuals supporting the campaign of Donald J. Trump for President. And it has lost mission focus, diverting limited staff and resources to support missions beyond its scope and authority, spending well over a billion dollars to welcome illegal aliens.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3301146\/trump-takes-aim-at-fema-in-new-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TRUMP TAKES AIM AT FEMA IN NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER\">TRUMP TAKES AIM AT FEMA IN NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3301146\/trump-takes-aim-at-fema-in-new-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The council&rsquo;s goal\">The council&rsquo;s goal<\/a> will be to produce a report after one year that includes an assessment of FEMA&rsquo;s responses to disasters in the last four years, including whether it is sufficiently staffed, a comparison of FEMA&rsquo;s responses to disasters with local and state responses, a historical background of FEMA&rsquo;s founding and how the country responded to disasters before its existence, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of Hegseth and Noem will likely draw criticism, as they are two of Trump&rsquo;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/3376209\/kristi-noem-cosplay-dhs-role-rejects-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">controversial Cabinet members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1991395\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1991395\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump names 13 members to FEMA Review Council to reform agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2428551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP25017607215599.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33549,18818,54253,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2428550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-broken-system","tag-fema","tag-review-council","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP25017607215599.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428558,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428550\/revisions\/2428558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}