Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Achieves Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness

ENHANCING EFFICIENCY THROUGH STATE AND LOCAL PREPAREDNESS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to empower states, localities, and citizens to more effectively prepare for incidents like cyber attacks and weather events.

• The Order enables state and local governments to better understand, plan for, and address the needs of their citizens by reducing the complexity of federal preparedness and response policies.
• It also launches a National Resilience Strategy that articulates the priorities, means, and ways to advance the resilience of the nation.
• The Order calls for a review of all infrastructure, continuity, and preparedness policies to modernize and simplify federal approaches, aligning them with the National Resilience Strategy. This includes:
  • Shifting national critical infrastructure policy from an “all-hazards” approach to a risk-informed approach, prioritizing resilience and action over mere information sharing. 
  • Overhauling national continuity policy to modernize its framework, streamline operations, and right-size the federal footprint for sustained readiness.
  • Evaluating national preparedness policies to reformulate the process and metrics for federal responsibility.
• The Order creates a National Risk Register to identify, describe, and measure risks to our national infrastructure, related systems, and their users in order to guide smarter spending and planning.
• The Order streamlines federal functions so states and communities can work with Washington more easily and effectively.

SAVING LIVES THROUGH EARLY PREPAREDNESS: President Trump knows that Americans need fast, effective help when crises hit—not delays or excuses.

• This Order injects common sense into both infrastructure prioritization and strategic investments through risk-informed decisions. This will make our infrastructure, communities, and economy more resilient to global and dynamic threats and hazards.
• Local leaders and citizens know their needs best—not bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
• The Order streamlines operations and updates relevant government policies to reduce complexity, increase efficiency, and better protect and serve Americans. It enables state and local governments to better understand, plan for, and address the needs of their citizens.

EMPOWERING STATES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES: This Executive Order delivers on President Trump’s commitment to shift power from Washington to the American people.

• In his first week back in office, President Trump established a task force to assess FEMA’s ability to effectively address disasters occurring within the United States.
• President Trump also signed an Executive Order to ensure California gets adequate resources to fight wildfires and assist California and North Carolina in rebuilding quicker, putting local needs first.