A meeting for a Trump administration council tasked with recommending changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency was abruptly canceled Thursday on the day it was set to issue its final report.

The FEMA Review Council, which President Donald Trump established by executive order within days of taking office in January, was set to vote on the report at a 1 p.m. meeting after months of internal deliberations.

But the meeting was canceled shortly after it was set to begin, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed, directing further questions on the cancellation to the White House.

A White House official said the meeting was canceled Thursday morning while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a co-chair of the FEMA Review Council, was testifying because White House

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