Trump attacked FEMA, saying the agency has not done its “job for the last four years,” and suggested without evidence that Democrats did not care about disasters in states like North Carolina—which has a Democratic governor—but are eager to get federal support to deal with the Los Angeles fires.

President Donald Trump proposed turning disaster assistance over to individual states to distribute rather than having the Federal Emergency Management Agency respond, ahead of a trip to survey flood damage in North Carolina and wildfires in California.