Changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency?

I just met a senior consultant to FEMA, which gave me the opportunity to gain perspective on Trump’s attempt to move the agency from the federal government and into the states.  He explained that there are three reasons why this will not happen:

1) Through whatever means, Trump will be gone long before this could possibly occur.

2) The states don’t have enough money to deal with large disasters.

3) This function requires a huge level of staffing that’s available on a moment’s notice 365 days per year.  Asking each of the 50 states to meet that burden would be enormously wasteful.

If all this stuff seems obvious, keep in mind that Trump supporters number in the many tens of million, and they (generally) lack the capacity to think this through.