President Donald Trump is heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles. It's the first trip of his second term.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit western North Carolina on Friday, Jan. 24, according to Governor Josh Stein. President Trump mentioned North Carolina by name in his inaugural address on Monday,

President Donald Trump will visit storm-ravaged North Carolina on Friday in his first trip outside Washington since the start of his second term.

In September, Trump made a bold campaign promise to the Lumbee Tribe during a rally, vowing to grant them federal recognition if reelected. Speaking at the Aero Center near Wilmington International Airport in North Carolina, Trump addressed a crowd of supporters, including John Cummings, a Lumbee Tribe member and Robeson County board commissioner.

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has pushed for federal recognition for decades. A new executive order instructs Interior Department to help.

During a winter weather-related press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 22, Gov. Josh Stein told reporters that his office had just learned about the presidential visit.

Since former President Jimmy Carter created FEMA in 1979, it has become a massive federal agency with a budget of $29.5 billion in fiscal 2023.

President Donald Trump is preparing to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been on the frontlines of responding to disasters in California and North Carolina.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum to submit a plan to grant federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, a day before he is due to visit the state.

The memorandum directs the Department of the Interior to promote and pursue federal recognition of North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe and submit a plan within 90 days.

Channel 9′s Dave Faherty was in Black Mountain and Swannanoa Thursday talking with people still recovering from the Helene

Governor Josh Stein confirmed the president's trip during his winter weather briefing Tuesday afternoon. He called it "very good news.”