Kristi Noem Reveals Texas Was Fun Preview of Future Disaster Responses
Internal security secretary Kristi Noem said that Americans should expect that future natural disasters are managed in a similar way to the recent murderous floods in Texas – and no, she was not ironic.
During press conference In Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday, Noem was denying how much she had managed the response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the floods in Texas earlier this month.
“What you have seen in Texas is much more to what FEMA will look like in the future. It will not look like the answer to [Hurricane] Katrina, or the response to the same [Hurricane] Helene, and what happened in North Carolina, where people waited for weeks, weeks and months and months to get help ”, she said.
But Noem had seriously botched Texas from FEMA by default To renew contracts with personnel companies in FEMA call centers, which led to the majority of unanswered calls for days while flood waters were raging. The secretary rejected Reports as “false news”.
Noem would also have delayed Initial response from FEMA by instituting a policy that forced him to personally sign all DHS expenses exceeding $ 100,000. FEMA officials, who were not aware of the new rule, did not receive Noem green light for 72 hours.
Last month, Donald Trump said He plans to “solve” FEMA after the hurricane season this year, and future disbursements would come directly from him. “We are going to give it directly. It will be from the president’s office. We will have someone here, could be internal security,” said Trump at the time. Obviously, put the Noem responsible for the personal approval of decisions in a disaster at a cost, and the Trump administration mismanagement relief is more extensive than floods in Texas.
Twenty States led by Democrats heard The Trump administration on Wednesday, saying that the White House had acted illegally when the FEMA and communities’ resilient infrastructure subsidy is canceled, which finances infrastructure projects such as Levées, shelters and seismic tests to protect people from extreme weather conditions.
