US President Donald Trump visited disaster zones in North Carolina and California on Friday, using the first trip since his return to office to turn emergency aid into a political cudgel. Speaking in North Carolina earlier,

It is the latest sign of how Mr Trump is weighing up sweeping changes to the nation’s central organisation for responding to disasters.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday (Jan 24) that he plans to sign an executive order to overhaul or eliminate the main federal agency that responds to natural disasters during a visit to

The president threatened to condition federal funding on a voter ID law and water policy changes ahead of a trip to California.

President Donald Trump traveled to North Carolina on Friday and is en route to California to make his first presidential visits to states ravaged by disasters that he has sought to politicize.

U.S. President Donald Trump visited disaster-hit western North Carolina on Friday and was traveling later to Los Angeles, promising help while stoking partisan tensions with Democratic rivals over recovery efforts.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to tour the damage by the devastating LA wildfires as he threatens to withhold funding over his feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom.

President Trump is taking the first trip of his term on Friday to North Carolina and California, visiting communities grappling with recovery from natural disasters.