President Donald Trump’s council to review the Federal Emergency Management Agency will hold its first meeting May 20 amid deepening agency turmoil.
Announced Tuesday in the Federal Register, the meeting will include a one-hour open session that the public can watch virtually. That segment will feature the swearing in of council members, remarks from the council leadership and an overview of the panel.
Individuals can register to watch by sending an email with their full legal name and email address to FEMAreviewcouncil@hq.dhs.gov.
Once the review council meets, it will have 180 days — until Nov. 16 — to give Trump a report on whether FEMA can operate as a “support agency” for states “rather than supplanting state control of disaster relief,” according to Trump’s Jan. 24 executive order that created the council.
