US President Donald Trump travels to Los Angeles, who was destroyed by the Hurricane, who was destroyed by the Hurricane Fire after the Los Angeles of California, who, according to him, had been false.

Trump also considers the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created by President Jimmy Carter in 1980.

“FEMA has not done its job over the past four years” and “hinders everything,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News this week.

The agency has previously criticized sharp criticism, especially in 2005, but Trump tries to change the cost of disaster prevention and their response to their own cargo.

Before leaving the post, President Joe Biden promised that the federal government would take care of all the expenses for the forest fires near Los Angeles, which can become the most expensive natural disaster in the United States. Global Analytical Verisk is waiting for losses of insured property from Palisades and Iton's fires, which are the two most powerful fires of this month at $ 28-35 billion.

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In addition, Biden signed the bill on allocations, which was signed last year, which was replenished by the Federal Disaster Relief Fund for $ 100 billion.

In his turn, California adopted a resort package at Democrat Gevin Nusom to spend $ 2.5 billion in Los Angeles.

Trump also offered to use Federal Disaster Aid as a bargaining tool during non-linked legislative negotiations on government loans or as a lever to persuade California to change some policy. Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, a republican speaker, has mainly responded to the position, saying that help should be linked to forests and water management.

Some Republicans in the House of Representatives of California have refused the idea.

“It is unacceptable to play politics with people living with people's livelihoods and the victims of the South California forest fires and our brave first responders,” said Republican MP Young Kim, which is part of the firefounder in the area of ​​Los, south-east. Angeles is said in a statement.

What FEMA is not

Experts emphasize that FEMA is not responsible for the whole recovery process.

“Everyone thinks that Fema just comes immediately after the disaster and start to manage the whole disaster. And this is not the case, “said Brock Long, the FEMA administrator from 2017 to 2019.

When there is a warning, as storms, FEMA coordinates the needs of the United States and local authorities and can prepare supplies such as water or tariffs in areas that are probably most affected. FEMA also has to send his search and rescue teams.

It is also impossible, given how many people in the United States have suffered from floods, storms, tornadoes and forest fires in the United States. There are restrictions on both emergency and FEMA recovery for those who do not have enough housing insurance.

“Fema is not recovering anyone after a disaster,” says Samantha L. Montano, Massachusetts Marine Academy Emergency Assistant. “They're not going to give you so much money to make your life fully recover.”

What is FEMA doing?

FEMA has an operational budget and Disaster Relief Fund.

The foundation is mainly the country's checkbook for emergencies. The government uses it to compensate the United States and local self-government bodies such as debris removal, road reconstruction or firefighters overtime expenses.

At individual level, FEMA can send $ 750 payments for people's emergency needs such as clothes and food. In the future, it can provide up to 42,500 USD owners in reconstruction process.

The federal government does not help any catastrophe, it must mainly be above the capacity of the community or state. In that case, the governor or tribal authorities ask the President to declare a state of emergency.

FEMA Challenges

There are long-term funding for FEMA.

The Disaster Support Fund sometimes consumed at the end of the summer, which usually occurs at the beginning of the Atlantic Season until the Congress will accept the new budget, and it is not uncommon by the agency what it is called “Additional” in funding.

The report of the Budget Office of the 2022 Congress states that most of the disaster relief fund actually derive from these surveys. The report states that “a small part of these disasters is a disproportionate share of total expenses.”

When the Disaster Fund is consumed, FEMA passes what is called “financing of immediate needs.” This means that the agency stops paying for previous disasters and saves its money during any active actions for the rescue missions. When the affidavit fund of the disaster is supplemented, then the money is re-flowed to longer-term programs.

“Frankly, there is a lot of work to be done to simplify and reimburize it. “How can the Disaster Relief Foundation be created so that the FEMA administrator is not constantly asked to ask for additional funding? – said Long.

What can Trump do?

Trump Cameron Hamilton, who used to be the Navy's SEAL and the unsuccessful candidate of the Congress, became a temporary administrator of the agency. Hamilton has previously worked on emergency management issues for internal security and State Department, but he has limited natural disasters.

The project was 2025, the conservative project of the second term of Trump, which was prepared by the president's allies, included dramatic proposals for FEMA, including the Department of Internal Affairs or Transportation Department.

Another suggestion was to limit the federal compensation for small disasters by 25 percent, and in the case of larger, 75%. The presidents can currently allow some cost compensation by 100%.

Trump has diminished climate change, and is it questionable whether this point of view will change in the next four years, even if the Helen storm, and Los Angeles's forest fires have escalated from global warming.

In case of Helene, the study of World Weather Attribution's international climanders showed that the climate change increased by 10%.

In California, the state suffered a record dry meal and winter, its traditional wet season, which made the area around Los Angeles for more vulnerable fires.

Trump was accused of politicizing disasters in his first term. According to Politico's latest investigative articles, he refused to help forest fires in Washington due to personal enmity against Governor Jay Insli. It was sometimes more critical of officials when there were harmful weather events in the powers of the Democrats, including: Forest fires in California and Storms in Puerto Rico.