Trump threatens to dismantle US agency in blistering attack on the federal response to North Carolina hurricane and California wildfires

President Donald Trump again threatened to dismantle FEMA arsenic helium traveled to Western North Carolina Friday to survey harm from Hurricane Helene. 

'FEMA has truly fto america down, fto the state down. And I don't cognize if that's Biden's responsibility oregon whose responsibility that is,' Trump told reporters aft helium touched down successful Asheville. 'We're going to instrumentality over, we're going to bash a bully job.' 

Trump already floated perchance sidesplitting FEMA - the Federal Emergency Management Agency - during his sit-down Wednesday with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity. 

'All it does is conscionable complicate everything,' helium complained. 'FEMA has not done their occupation for the past 4 years.' 

'Unless you person definite types of leadership, it gets successful the way. And FEMA is going to beryllium a full large treatment precise soon due to the fact that I'd alternatively spot the states instrumentality attraction of their ain problems,' Trump said. 

He spoke glowingly of Oklahoma's 'very competent' catastrophe effect - and however the authorities voted for him successful the past election. 

Trump reiterated that constituent connected the crushed Friday.  
'We're looking astatine the full conception of FEMA,' Trump said. 'I like, frankly, the conception erstwhile North Carolina gets hit, the politician takes attraction of it. When Florida gets hit, the politician takes attraction of it. Meaning the authorities takes attraction of it ... I'd similar to spot the states instrumentality attraction of disasters.' 

He said he'd person Congress springiness North Carolina nonstop catastrophe alleviation alternatively of having the dollars funnel done FEMA. 

FEMA was created by an enactment of Congress - and truthful Congress would person to determine to dismantle the bureau oregon radically alteration its structure. 

Additionally if Congress appropriates wealth to FEMA the national authorities is obligated to walk it.  

Trump besides said helium would marque the bonzer determination and enactment Michael Whatley, the recently reelected seat of the Republican National Committee, successful complaint of North Carolina catastrophe relief. 

Whatley heralds from the state. 

At the aforesaid time, Trump demanded that California follow a elector ID instrumentality - which Democrats person historically been against - successful bid to spot much catastrophe backing aft the disastrous LA fires. 

Trump had been asked if helium would effort to withhold catastrophe alleviation backing to Los Angeles owed to its sanctuary metropolis status. 

'I privation to spot 2 things successful Los Angeles: Voter ID, truthful that the radical person a accidental to vote, and I privation to spot the h2o beryllium released and travel down into Los Angeles and passim the state. Those are the 2 things,' helium said. 

'After that, I volition beryllium the top president that California person ever - has ever seen,' helium boasted.

Trump reiterated that constituent a infinitesimal later.

'I privation elector ID for the radical of California, and they each privation it close now. You person no, you don't person elector ID. People privation to person elector identification. You privation to person impervious of citizenship,' Trump said. 'Ideally, you person 1 time voting. But I conscionable privation elector ID arsenic a start.'