Report: Trump administration mulls moving FEMA to Texas

Source: KVUE-TV Austin, TX

Published: 5:39 PM CST November 18, 2025
Updated: 5:39 PM CST November 18, 2025


AUSTIN, Texas — New reporting from Politico finds the Trump administration is considering moving FEMA from its current home in Washington, D.C., to Texas and tapping the state's top emergency manager, Nim Kidd, to take charge of it. Tom Frank, deputy climate editor with Politico, joined KVUE to talk more about the report.

Ashley Goudeau: Talk to us about how you found this out, what you learned.

Frank: I found out from sources I have, and they basically [said] FEMA is – the Trump administration is looking at moving the FEMA headquarters out of Washington, D.C., to Texas, and that would be part of a package to get Nim Kidd, the head of the Texas Division of Emergency Management Agency, to run FEMA.

Nim Kid, it's been known publicly since almost the start of the second Trump administration, that he's been a leading candidate to run FEMA. But he's also made it very clear in public writings that he has no interest in leaving Texas, so this would be a way to, first of all, get an agency outside of D.C., which is one goal of this administration, and secondly, get a high, highly qualified, highly experienced person in charge of FEEMA who has good relations with the Trump administration.

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