Even President Donald Trump’s appointed panel to diminish the Federal Emergency Management Agency agrees that the organization is too crucial to kill—but that won’t stop Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from butting in.

According to The Associated Press, Noem “nuked” a FEMA Review Council report that detailed how the agency could operate more independently rather than being dismantled, chopping the report down from more than 160 pages to a mere 20.

The council broke rank with Trump’s goal of shuttering the program and instead suggested that it be given more power. But when the council recommended elevating FEMA to a Cabinet-level office, Noem pared it down to essentially just a grant-writing operation.

A source told the Washington Post that Noem also recommended that FEMA only ta

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