Trump Rolls Out FEMA Taskforce To Fix ‘Terribly Broken’ Emergency System

President Donald Trump announced Monday the members of his FEMA review council, which he tasked with returning power to state-level emergency managers.

Trump, who has been very critical of FEMA’s handling of recent natural disasters, signed an executive order in January aimed at bringing serious reform to the agency. In previous interviews, Trump has floated the idea of getting rid of FEMA all together, and handing back responsibility to the states to handle their own emergencies with federal funding.

“I am proud to announce the formation of the FEMA Review Council, comprised of Top Experts in their fields, who are Highly Respected by their peers,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I know that the new Members will work hard to fix a terribly broken System, and return power to State Emergency Managers, who will help, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. Congratulations to all!”

Members of the task force include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, RNC Chair Michael Whatley, and Tampa Mayor Jane Castor.

“As a proud son of Western North Carolina, I have seen first-hand the incredible work of the Trump Administration to help the region recover from Hurricane Helene and look forward to working with these great leaders to bring much-needed reforms to federal emergency response across the country,” Whatley said in response to the news.

In his executive order, Trump said the council will assess “the existing ability of FEMA to capably and impartially address disasters occurring within the United States and shall advise the President on all recommended changes related to FEMA to best serve the national interest.”

The executive order stipulates that the council develop proposals to improve FEMA, survey states and other stakeholders impacted by natural disasters, and produce a comprehensive report on the agency and how disaster relief was handled before its creation.

His executive order also referenced the story broken by The Daily Wire, revealing that a FEMA supervisor in Florida had ordered FEMA response workers to skip the homes of people with Trump signs or flags in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.

“There are serious concerns of political bias in FEMA,” Trump wrote in the executive order. “Indeed, at least one former FEMA responder has stated that FEMA managers directed her to avoid homes of individuals supporting the campaign of Donald J. Trump for President.”

Abortion Pill 22 Times More Dangerous Than FDA Claimed, New Study Says

The abortion pill is many times more dangerous than the FDA claimed, with more than one in 10 women suffering serious complications, a new study found.

About 11.2% of 154,554 women experienced a “serious adverse event” after taking the mifepristone abortion pill in 2023, according to new research commissioned by the Foundation for the Restoration of America and released Monday.

That works out to about 17,310 women who suffered serious adverse events, which can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis.

This is about 22 times higher than what the FDA put on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023 — the FDA cited clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered “serious adverse reactions” to mifepristone.

The two-pill chemical abortion regimen, mifepristone usually followed by misoprostol, aims to end the life of the unborn baby and expel it from the woman’s uterus. However, the drugs sometimes fail to expel all the fetal tissue, which can cause life-threatening complications.

“This drastic difference between the disclosed risk and the actual risk to patients undermines informed consent and endangers the lives of pregnant women,” the researchers wrote, adding that policymakers and regulators should take action.

“This is much different than the lie that women have been told that these drugs are safer than Tylenol,” Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OBGYN who has been in practice for two decades, told The Daily Wire.

Plus, the research only analyzed data from insurance claims for government insurance like Medicare and Medicaid between 2017 and 2023, so the total number of women who suffered serious complications is likely even higher.

Over those six years, the number of chemical abortions jumped dramatically from less than 100,000 to over 150,000 a year, likely due to the drug’s increased availability online, the insurance claims data show.

Medication abortions are far more common than surgical abortions. Medication abortions made up 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 31% in 2014, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.

The abortion pill is likely the main factor driving up the country’s total number of abortions in recent years, even in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

Abortion advocates have argued that the abortion pill should be more available to order online now that some Republican-led states ban abortion.

A few months before Roe vs. Wade was overturned, the FDA scrapped the requirement that women must obtain abortion pills in person from a health provider, allowing them to obtain them online through the mail.

Afterward, Francis, the pro-life OBGYN, said one emergency doctor pulled her aside and asked, “What has changed because we’re seeing so many more women come in with these complications.”

Mifepristone was originally approved by the FDA in 2000.

“This bombshell report is further evidence that our government uses phony data and politicized science to lie to its people. In this case, those lies further political ideologies rather than the health, safety, and well-being of women and children,” Doug Truax, founder of the Foundation for the Restoration of America, which commissioned the study, told The Daily Wire.

“If you had any other drug that was kind of similar in terms of the magnitude of what this thing does, anywhere north of 2% and they’d shut it down,” Truax said.

“They’re just hell bent on just increasing the amount of abortions.”

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