The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an organization that has gone past its sell-by date and should be shut down. That may seem a surprising statement to some; the primary (I would say, only) legitimate role of government is the protection of the liberty and property of the citizens, and surely the “protection” portion of that includes warnings of, and recovery from, natural and man-made disasters, yes? And isn’t that what FEMA does?

Supposedly. If that’s the case, of course, then every natural disaster before 1979 must have gone ignored and unattended, as before then, FEMA didn’t exist. But that’s not the primary argument for shutting FEMA down; the primary reason is that the agency has gone rogue, and they are committing horrendous wastes of taxpayer money.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has mismanaged tens of billions of dollars over the years, according to numerous government reports into its spending.

The government agency’s response to COVID, hurricanes, floods and housing migrants have all come under fire for being wasteful and going largely unchecked — as the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been sent in to analyze its spending.

The most recent audit of the embattled disaster response agency claimed it mismanaged nearly $10 billion during the COVID pandemic between 2020 and 2023.

FEMA even approved a grant of $1.1 billion despite it only being supported by only a single piece of paper with no itemized costs, the Jan. 30 audit by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found.

The request was also “not prepared by a licensed professional engineer or cost-estimating professional,” according to the 36-page report.

Now, mind you, the COVID panic was the source of a lot of wasteful spending by multiple branches of the federal government. But FEMA’s malfeasances didn’t begin or end there.

First, on Monday, RedState’s own streiff documented how the Department of Government Waste (DOGE) under Elon Musk caught FEMA staffers openly defying their boss – you know, the President of the United States – in persisting to dump millions into luxury hotel rooms for illegal aliens.