SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a trip to disaster zones Friday, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the nation’s central organization for responding to disasters.

President Donald Trump is heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday, using the first trip of his second administration to tour areas where politics has clouded the response to deadly disasters.

President Donald Trump suggested at a Friday briefing on North Carolina’s hurricane recovery that he would sign an “executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA,

Trump’s pardons don’t erase a criminal conviction but they dismiss pending charges and release convicted people from prison and restore any rights that might have been taken away.

Trump harshly criticized Federal Emergency Management Agency because of its hurricane response in North Carolina and said he would sign an executive order "overhauliong" or even abolishing the agency.

Trump's sweeping pardons. In South Carolina, more than 34 people faced criminal charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Those charges will be cleared.

Issac Bailey writes we should not let the pardons of insurrectionists fade from headlines too soon because our democracy is counting on it.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to sign an executive order to overhaul or eliminate the main federal agency that responds to natural disasters during a visit to storm-hit areas of North Carolina.

President Donald Trump is heading into the fifth day of his second term in office, striving to remake the traditional boundaries of Washington by asserting unprecedented executive power

Donald and Melania Trump are stopping in North Carolina, California and Nevada during the first second term trip. Follow along for live updates.

On the eve of Monday’s inauguration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, Biden delivered a final farewell from a state that holds special meaning after his commanding win in its 2020 Democratic primary set him up to achieve his life’s goal of being elected president of the United States.