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Budget limits at DHS delayed FEMA’s Texas deployment, officials say
FEMA officials said search and rescue efforts in the Texas floods were slowed by
budget rules imposed by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
By Brianna Sacks and Hannah Natanson
July 10 2025 at 8:02 p.m. EDT
Two days before torrential rains turned the Guadalupe River into a raging flood,
a veteran official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The Washington Post that one of the main concerns for this disaster season was the agency’s ability to quickly deploy specialized search and rescue teams. The Trump administration’s new rules mean disaster specialists can no longer “make
decisions” on their own.
The official then watched it happen in real time in Texas.
Deployments of critical resources, such as tactical and specialized search and rescue teams, were delayed as a result of a budget restriction requiring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem to approve every purchase, contract and grant over $100,000, according to a dozen current and former FEMA employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/10/fema-texas-flooding-dhs-search-rescue/
ICE Barbie murdered Texans.
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