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After Texas floods, questions about FEMA's future loom large

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been exerting more direct control over the agency, which President Donald Trump has talked about “getting rid of.”

The Associated Press on MSN · 25m

Texas flooding, and politics around it, underscore the challenges Trump faces in replacing FEMA

Noem said the rapid delivery of funds to Texas resembled the “state block grants” model Trump has promoted. It’s an idea that would replace FEMA’s current system of reimbursing states for response and recovery expenses at a cost-share of at least 75%.

Texas Public Radio · 1h

Texas is relying on FEMA. State leaders said it should be cut

The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Texas flooding live updates

ABC · 1d

Texas flooding live updates: Officials grilled about response as death toll rises

NOAA also said the NWS had forecast briefings Thursday morning, issued a flood watch Thursday afternoon and then issued flash flood warnings on Thursday night and early Friday. This gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred,

USA TODAY on MSN · 17m

Search teams scour for more than 170 still missing in Texas flooding: Live updates

The death toll in the central Texas flooding is up to 119 people, 95 of them in Kerr County, including 36 children.

Yahoo · 12h

Deadly Texas flooding offers warning for Floridians | Letters

Recent flooding in Texas has resulted in more than 100 deaths, including several young girls at a summer camp. At a press conference, a Texas official said “Everybody got the forecast from the National Weather Service.

3hon MSN

In Texas flood response, FEMA slowed by Noem’s cost controls

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

2hon MSN

As FEMA aids Texas flood victims, Noem urges eliminating US agency 'as it exists today'

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on Wednesday for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be eliminated in its current form, even as the disaster-relief agency deployed ...

47mon MSN

U.S. House Democrats seek oversight hearing on federal handling of Texas flooding

U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Farmers Branch, is pushing the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee to convene an oversight ...

WATCH LIVE: Trump’s FEMA council meets with DHS as agency responds to Texas flood devastation

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem are expected to deliver ...

Noem doubles down on call to ax FEMA, then recreate it to support states

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has doubled down on her past calls to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — but also says it should be “remade” as the agency responds ...

NOLA.com36m

Trump-appointed council to overhaul FEMA meets in New Orleans. 'Not political theater.'

Trump’s FEMA council, led by Kristi Noem, met amid U.S. floods to discuss major changes, including possibly shifting disaster ...

Latin Times on MSN2d

Kristi Noem 'Bragging' About Using FEMA Funds for 'Alligator Alcatraz' Resurfaces After Deadly Texas Flood

As Texans mourn the loss of life from devastating July 4 floods, backlash grows over Kristi Noem's decision to use FEMA funds ...

1don MSN

Texas county where campers died was denied money to boost warning systems

Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.

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