President Trump proposed ending federal disaster relief, suggesting states manage their emergencies. He criticised FEMA's performance and stated that leadership impacts its effectiveness. His remarks came as a wildfire forced evacuations in Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with

"FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems," Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox on Wednesday night.

President Donald Trump targeted federal workers in an opening act aimed at exerting political control over a sprawling bureaucracy — putting federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees on leave, banning remote work and stripping employment protections from civil servants.

Federal workers are scrambling to make sense of the flurry of decrees issued Monday evening by President Donald Trump, parsing through emails from interim agency heads and skimming reports of lawsuits filed by unions to try to understand whether they have to report to work in person, or if they will soon have a job at all.

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to immediately terminate all remote arrangements.