The presidential council that’s tasked with overhauling the Federal Emergency Management Agency will hold a public meeting Wednesday as the agency is helping recovery operations in Kerr County, Texas, where devastating floods killed more than 100 people.
The second meeting of President Donald Trump’s FEMA Review Council — planned weeks ago — comes as the agency is balancing months of criticism from Trump, who has threatened to eliminate FEMA, with its response to one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history.
Trump created the 13-member council to recommend changes to FEMA. But the flooding in Kerr County has highlighted the agency’s role in responding to disasters and could shape the review council’s meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Both the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott (R), and the state’s emergency management chief are members of the council.
