President Trump was briefed Friday on the government’s hurricane preparation efforts by disaster-response officials in Washington.

The briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) comes hours before the president leaves the nation’s capital for his New Jersey golf club, where he will take a two-week vacation.

Trump touted his administration’s commitment to disaster relief, telling participants, “We are very strong on homeland security and we're very strong in respect to FEMA"

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"FEMA is something I've been very much involved in already," he said. “We've already taken care of many of the situations that really needed emergency funds. We do it quickly, we do it effectively, we have an amazing team."

Trump received an update on the hurricane season then toured FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center, a large open room with nine rows of computer screens monitored by employees.

The president was joined by Vice President Pence, chief of staff John Kelly and more than two dozen other Cabinet secretaries and advisers.

This summer’s hurricane season could test the Trump administration’s ability to deal with an external crisis.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting an above-normal hurricane season, with a 70 percent likelihood that 11 to 17 named storms could occur.

NOAA predicts that between five to nine could become hurricanes, with two to four becoming major hurricanes.

Trump’s pick to lead FEMA, Brock Long, was only confirmed in June. He previously led the Alabama Emergency Management Agency and was state incident commander during the 2011 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.