PBS News Hour

Trump considers major changes to federal disaster response

President Donald Trump jetted off for the first trip of his second administration to tour one sprawling disaster zone after the other. The president is in California where he'll survey damage from the wildfires that are ravaging the Los Angeles area. But first, he stopped in North Carolina, four months after Hurricane Helene, and threatened the future of FEMA. Laura Barrón-López reports.

Trump considers major changes to federal disaster response

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