FEMA?

 There was some talk by Trump of reevaluating FEMA over the last few days.   As with many things Trump says, I'd like to get some more detail before I evaluate this potential policy change.   However, I do see some potential advantages to restructuring FEMA.  

I do think that there does need to be some federal level emergency response apparatus because natural disasters are rarely constrained by state lines and I can see benefits to a regional response, rather than state by state.   I can also see potential economies of scale with a federal agency as opposed to state by state.  

However, I can also see some advantages to downsizing FEMA to a small core of people who can access resources if needed, but primarily block grants money to states to do their own response.   As with most things I believe that local government will better handle things than the federal government.  

I do think that responding to large regional or national disasters is a legitimate role of the federal government, but also believe that it may not always be the best of most efficient.  

Hopefully, we'll see more detail soon so we can evaluate the specific plan instead of speculating based on a random comment.