Gov. Landry shares thoughts following FEMA Review Council meeting

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has played a role in Louisiana Storm Relief for decades, providing the state with about $47 billion since 2003 according to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The FEMA review council along with Governor Landry, who is not a member of the council, says the program has not served its purpose properly in recent decades.

“Here we are, some 20 years later, and yet we’re still talking about the flawed system of bureaucracy that FEMA is still enveloped in,” Landry said.

During the meeting, Chair of the FEMA Review Council Secretary Kristi Noem echoed President Donald Trump’s wishes to eliminate the program.

Governor Landry believes that as of now the program will stay intact following the council’s recommendations.

“You know, I’ve always been let’s fix what’s broken,” Landry said.

However, he says if FEMA were to be eliminated, President Trump would replace it with a more streamlined program with no federal money lost.

“He recognized that there needs to be efficiencies in a program because every dollar that is either fraudfully taken or ill spent means someone else doesn’t get the money that they need. We don’t want the greedy taking from the needy,” Landry said.

Governor Landry says he plans to spend more time focused on the National Flood Insurance Program, something that has greatly contributed to the home owners insurance crisis in Louisiana and surrounding coastal states.

“We have a coalition that’s been built of states that has been trying to get to congress to say listen we need to fix the system,” Landry said.

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