Council members were expected to vote on proposed cuts that would alter the way the federal government responds to declared emergencies.

The group’s report did not call for FEMA to be eliminated, as President Trump suggested this year, according to CNN. Nor did it call for removing FEMA from the Homeland Security Department to become a stand-alone cabinet agency, CNN said, something emergency managers on the council and members of Congress have endorsed but Ms. Noem has resisted.

The scheduled gathering of the FEMA review council was supposed to include "a public vote on the draft final report" outlining recommendations about the future of the federal agency, but was abruptly canceled Thursday.

A federal judge ordered FEMA on Thursday to restore billions of dollars in grant funding designed to help communities prepare before disasters strike. The funding was halted earlier this year as part of the Trump administration's broader overhaul of the federal agency.

The White House tore into Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday after he claimed the Trump administration refused to meet with him Friday during a visit to Washington aimed at securing more wildfire recovery aid.