Trump said he would sign an order that could scrap the federal disaster agency, stepping up his effort to exert presidential power over the levers of government, and to decide which states get money from Washington.
The visit came as the White House said that Trump's promised operation to expel millions of undocumented migrants had begun with the launch of deportation flights on military aircraft.
Trump said he would be “signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe getting rid of FEMA.”
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Trump is separately trying to leverage disaster aid over rival Democrats in California, even as fresh wildfires add to the toll of blazes that have killed some two dozen people and caused billions of dollars in damage.
“In California I have a condition,“ he said. “I want two things, I want voter ID for the people of California... and I want to see the water be released and come down.”
Trump has previously slung insults at California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom -- branding him an “idiot” -- and baselessly claimed that California authorities diverted water supplies to save a kind of small fish called a smelt.
Trump's administration is also keeping the focus on migration, one of the key issues that fueled the 78-year-old's extraordinary political comeback in November's US presidential election.
By comparison, under Trump's predecessor Joe Biden there were a total of 270,000 deportations in 2024 -- a 10-year record -- and 113,400 arrests, making an average of 310 per day.
“We’re getting the bad, hard criminals out,“ Trump said when asked about the flights. “Murderers, people that have been as bad as you get. As bad as anybody you’ve seen.”
And his turbocharged bid to reshape America in the first days of his administration was also continuing with a planned video address to a huge anti-abortion march in Washington on Friday.
“I did a big clip for the March for Life, and we look forward to seeing it,“ Trump told reporters.
Trump recalled that he had signed a pardon for 23 anti-abortion protesters in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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