Trump’s New FEMA Chief Is Known as ‘The Terminator’ For Gutting Agencies

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Nov 24th, 2025, 3:21 pm

The new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Karen Evans , is known within the Trump administration as “The Terminator” for her slash-and-burn style of management, CNN reported Monday.

CNN reporter Gabe Cohen described Evans as a “longtime government employee with limited emergency management experience,” who recently served as a senior adviser in charge of cutting waste at the Department of Homeland Security. When she takes the helm at FEMA Dec. 1, Evans will become the third official to head up the agency in 10 months.

At DHS, Evans “quickly became known as the ‘final gatekeeper’ for all funding requests,” Cohen wrote . She was given the nickna

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