A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster recovery center in Pasadena, California, US, on Jan. 17, 2025. Jill Connelly/Bloomberg/Getty Images

A task force created by President Donald Trump plans to recommend the most sweeping overhaul of FEMA in decades, dramatically reducing the federal agency’s role in disaster response by cutting its workforce in half and rolling out a new block grant system designed to get aid to communities faster and with less bureaucratic hassle.

The recommendations from the FEMA Review Council , a copy of which was obtained by CNN, do not propose eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem once vowed.

The draft report does recommend changing the agency’s name as part of a rebrandin

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