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How ideology contributed to flood devastation in the Texas Hill Country
The Texas Hill Country disaster is not merely about one storm, one agency, or one administration. It is part of a broader, ...
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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 ...
Floods put Abbott, a disaster veteran, at crossroads of Trump’s FEMA rebrand
Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott participated in the first meeting of a new ...
Gov. Abbott demands comprehensive overhaul of Texas flood warning systems as death toll rises
Texas special session called to address flood warning failures and emergency response after Hill Country flooding caused more ...
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House committee demands briefing before FEMA answers for ‘failure ...
The Nov. 19 hearing in which Criswell will answer for her alleged failure of leadership is titled In the Eye of the Storm: Oversight of FEMA’s Disaster Readiness and Response.
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11 years after Katrina, FEMA has learned from its failures
"And so, when you look at 9/11, nobody questioned FEMA's response, from deployment of the Urban Search and Rescue Teams to the recovery. By and large, FEMA did its job.
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Investigation of FEMA must focus on restoring agency's original purpose ...
Make no mistake: FEMA’s disaster response failures and the ideology of its leaders are unlikely to be separate matters, and Congress has an obligation to investigate any link between them.
Texas lawmakers could have funded better emergency response systems — but they didn’t
Even before dozens died in flood waters on July 4, Texas ranked first in the U.S. in number of deaths due to natural ...