Trump Is Extending His FEMA Task Force For Another 60 Days

The agency review council, which has yet to publish a report detailing proposed changes to FEMA, had been due to expire this weekend.

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President Donald Trump is extending the charter for his Federal Emergency Management Agency task force for 60 days, a White House official told NOTUS Friday night, saving the task force from imminent dissolution.

The FEMA review council has yet to release a report detailing proposed changes to the agency and how it responds to natural disasters.

The council’s charter said that it would terminate a year after its January 24, 2025, creation, unless extended by the president. Trump tasked the council — made up of officials from the Department of Homeland Security and individual states with devising a plan to remake FEMA.