Kristi Noem explodes FEMA amid Texas Flood
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Noem reportedly issued a directive requiring all contracts and grants over $100,000 to receive her personal sign off for approval.
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.
FEMA officials are two months behind in posting grant application guidelines, which are expected to reflect President Trump’s demand for cooperation on his priorities.
Nearly one week after flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country and killed at least 119 people, it appears the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency isn’t acting much at all to lead his agency’s response to the disaster — and the media isn’t bothering to ask why he is missing in action at such a critical time.
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 to floods in Texas.
Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. For months, officials at FEMA have been warning that the agency is unprepared for disasters due to the mass exodus of experienced emergency managers and the looming threat of it being dismantled.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem raised eyebrows on social media after claiming Wednesday that one in six survivors of the Maui wildfires resorted to offering “sexual favors” to survive. Noem made the claim during the second meeting of the FEMA Review Council -- the body determining whether the agency should be eliminated and reformed.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire from a group of researchers who claim she misrepresented their study to claim that the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Biden administration effectively forced women wildfire survivors in Hawaii to sex traffick themselves,