President Donald Trump's suggestion about "getting rid of" the nation's disaster relief agency doesn't sound like a bad idea for some residents of western North Carolina who are still navigating the long recovery process from Hurricane Helene.

FLETCHER, N.C. — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the nation's central organization for responding to disasters.

Five days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration last month, Ali Zaidi, the Biden administration’s domestic climate czar, told an audience at Harvard University that Biden’s signature legislation to cut planet-heating emissions by investing in clean energy would prove hard for Republicans to unwind.