Donald F. Kettl notes that although many critics of the Federal Emergency Management Agency have argued that the agency’s functions could be better handled by states and localities, he writes that “if there’s any one enduring truth about federalism, however, it’s that it refuses to be neat.” Kettl contends that the possibility that the Trump administration would push disaster responses from FEMA to states and localities is misguided because only the federal government has the ability to handle large disasters. Read more here.
