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In a shift, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared on Sunday to walk back earlier plans for a sweeping dismantling of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying Trump wants to "remake" it.
Kristi Noem says Trump wants FEMA 'remade,' and more tariffs are set for U.S. trade partners: Weekend Rundown Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said President Donald Trump wants the Federal Emergency Management Agency “remade” rather than dismantled entirely.
The Homeland Security secretary, who oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency, struggled to defend the administration's response to Texas floods
Homeland Security Kristi Noem hit back at The New York Times over a report finding thousands of victims couldn’t get through to FEMA as catastrophic flooding engulfed Central Texas. A Times report found the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to answer “nearly two-thirds” of all distress calls from victims of the catastrophe,
The point of FEMA is that the vast majority of Americans don’t have the independent wealth that allows them to rebuild after a disaster with ease. But in the eyes of Trump and Noem, those who are not wealthy — like many of the victims in Texas — should be on their own if they can’t pay their way out of trouble.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has not budged in her belief that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be eliminated, Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon — and the reason has its roots in a white nationalist-adjacent conspiracy theory that has been bubbling below the surface in American politics for years.
Six months into Trump’s second term, Americans confront more bureaucracy, more paperwork, more delays and more inefficiencies.
Colorado lawmakers are calling out Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, following a three-day delay of FEMA's response to those in the Texas floods. FOX31's Matt Mauro has local reactions.