Republican lawmakers, including those from disaster-prone areas, are backing President Trump’s calls to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

“We need a FEMA that looks like somebody designed it on purpose, and that’s not what we have right now,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said this week. “It’s a mess, and it’s very inefficient.”

“I welcome the president’s interest in trying to improve the process of delivering disaster aid, which is taxpayer money, to people who need it,” he said.

Trump, who has been sharply critical of FEMA's response to disasters during the Biden administration, indicated last week that he’d like to revamp — if not get rid of — the agency.

“I’ll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA,” he said. “I think, frankly, FEMA’s not good.”

He also said he wants disaster response to be run at the state level.

“FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” he told Fox News.

“I love Oklahoma,”........

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