Just days into his second term, President Trump said he was going to recommend that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “go away,” dismissing the agency as bloated and ine

Rachel Maddow drew parallels on Monday night between the Trump administration's response to the July 4 flood in Texas and George W. Bush's infamously disastrous handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Cuts made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Trump administration severely impaired its ability to respond to the devastating floods in central Texas.

The administration supported search and rescue operations in Kerr County, Texas, after at least 120 people died and dozens went missing in deadly floods.

A reporter from CBS News Texas asked the president Friday if more lives could've been saved if emergency alerts were issued earlier.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has not budged in her belief that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be eliminated, Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon — and the reason has its roots in a white nationalist-adjacent conspiracy theory that has been bubbling below the surface in American politics for years.

The Department of Homeland Security secretary defended the federal government's response and denied that policy changes slowed the agency's deployment.