Trump himself accused the agency of diverting money to house illegal migrants, while Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has repeatedly claimed the U.S. government is able to control the weather and called for coordinated cloud seeding to end the California wildfires.

President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whose resources are strained following multiple weather-related disasters and which is burdened by past failures in handling massive storms.

(Reuters) - The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued existence was vital to the country's disaster response efforts, after President Donald Trump said he wanted to overhaul or scrap it.