A panel appointed by President Donald Trump recommended sweeping changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency , the nation’s primary disaster relief organization. In a 75-page report released Thursday, the FEMA Review Council called for a substantial reduction in the agency’s workforce and a transfer of its core emergency response obligations away from the federal government and to state and local authorities. “At the end of the day, we know FEMA is broken and it needs to be fundamentally transformed,” former Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin , who sits on the council, said on Thursday. “What we see here is a need to change, and it has to happen, and it can’t be trimming around the edges.” Trump established the council shortly after his inauguration last year, following criticism of the federal government’s approach to natural disasters. It is chaired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, with 10 additional members serving on the panel.…