Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has recounted leading federal response to the devastating flooding in Texas, telling Trump’s Cabinet meeting that she was overcome with emotion during the trip and had “kind of fallen apart.”
“Very emotional, but also just so tragic,” she said.
Noem said “Texas is strong” but also insisted, “We, as a federal government, don’t manage these disasters. The state does.”
“We’re cutting through the paperwork of the old FEMA streamlining it, much like your vision of how FEMA should operate,” Noem said of Trump’s promise to scrap the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Noem added, that Americans helping one another after such tragic events is proof, “God created us to take care of each other.”
Trump repeated that he will be in Texas on Friday.