Alabama may be negatively impacted if President Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to either eliminate or overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, CBS’s Margaret Brennan told Vice President JD Vance in an interview on “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

In the interview, Brennan said: “But FEMA has specialized expertise that some of these states just don’t have in their arsenal, and states who are lower income states – the Mississippis, the Kentuckys, the Alabamas – will they be able to do this for themselves without federal help?”

The three states rank in the bottom 10 states in per capita income.

Vance said Trump aims to cut bureaucratic red tape.

“The president, to be clear, is not saying we’re going to leave anybody behind,” Vance said.

“He’s saying that in the way that we administer these resources, some of which is coming from the federal level, some of which is coming from the state level, we’ve got to get the bureaucrats out of the way and get the aid to the people who need it most.”

Trump visited California and North Carolina on Friday to assess recent fire and flood damage. He spoke with residents and officials about potential changes to FEMA.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves described Brennan’s remarks as “hilarious elitism” in a response on X, formerly called Twitter.

Reeves said Brennan claimed that “Mississippians know less about emergency management than DC bureaucrats – all because her favorite Democrats in CA and NC have failed their constituents.

“The disdain these people have for any Americans outside of their little bubble is so pathetic and revealing,” Reeves added.