FEMA should be terminated. It has been slow and totally ineffective,” Individual states should handle storms, etc., as they come,” Trump wrote on his social media site.

Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the United States has no federal agency prepared to quickly send supplies, financial aid and temporary housing assistance. Could the states manage?

President Donald Trump said the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be eliminated, widening his fight against the federal bureaucracy that he has denounced as a “deep state” working against his interests.