'Get FEMA out of Homeland Security': Former FEMA director

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

05/17/25 8:15 AM ET


Former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Michael Brown, who led the agency during Hurricane Katrina, believes FEMA should be rid of unnecessary bureaucracy.

Brown, who joined “The Hill on NewsNation” to discuss a reporting from The Hill that an internal memo warned “FEMA is not ready” for this hurricane season, says the agency should be independent from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

President Trump said in January that he wanted the states to oversee disaster relief as opposed to the federal government. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, a vocal supporter of the president, has vowed to dismantle the agency.

The former director told host Blake Burman that FEMA being under DHS makes it “a bureaucracy on top of a bureaucracy.” “Make the FEMA administrator under the Stafford Act, like it has always been, directly reportable to the president of the United States,” Brown said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5305312-michael-brown-suggests-fema-dhs-split/

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[sueh]

1. What utter bullshit. Why are they even talking to him? He was horrible as FEMA director,

[Midnight Writer]

2. Amazing watching these guys fail upward, isn't it?

Brownie now has his own talk radio show which opens with a soundbite of W Bush saying "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie!"

A reminder that this guy's only qualification for FEMA was being buddies with the Bush family. Oh, and he also judged horse shows.

[tanyev]

3. You say that like you think Trump wants FEMA to help people, Michael.

Where have you been lately?

[louis-t]

4. "Heckuva Job Brownie" has an opinion?

He's the only unnecessary bureaucrat I see here.

[Eugene]

5. OFFS. Brownie, you pioneered the "you're on your own" model of disaster management they are implementing.

Getting praised by an idiot doesn't make him an expert.

[pecosbob]

6. DHS is the definition of unnecessary bureaucracy and all it's uses are Orwellian.

It has been used to spy on Americans since it's creation and now it's being used to 'black-bag' Americans.