The long-awaited FEMA Review Council’s report is here and the findings are eye-opening. It argues that the nation’s emergency management system requires a “complete structural transformation,” going so far as to say it is “time to close the book on FEMA,” even as it proposes a successor agency that retains FEMA’s core missions while shifting far more responsibility to states and tribes. It outlines ten major reforms that collectively amount to potential “elimination by reinvention.” Several proposals, such as replacing the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and overhauling the National Flood Insurance Program, would require congressional action, while others could be implemented through policy, regulation, or executive order. Although some recommendations are reasonable, the report appears reverse‑engineered to shrink FEMA, push costs to states, and significantly narrow the federal role in emergency management.