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The explanation why the administration will not be prepared to do some digging and examine is starting to emerge, and it’s all about DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
For instance, as central Texas cities have been submerged in rising waters, FEMA officers realized they couldn’t pre-position City Search and Rescue crews from a community of groups stationed regionally throughout the nation.
Up to now, FEMA would have swiftly staged these groups, that are particularly educated for conditions together with catastrophic floods, nearer to a catastrophe zone in anticipation of pressing requests, a number of company sources advised CNN.
However whilst Texas rescue crews raced to save lots of lives, FEMA officers realized they wanted Noem’s approval earlier than sending these further belongings. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of City Search and Rescue groups till Monday, greater than 72 hours after the flooding started, a number of sources advised CNN.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) reacted to the CNN report by calling out Noem’s lethal incompetence on Bluesky:
Trump made Kristi Noem his DHS choose regardless that she had zero expertise in any space of homeland safety. Noem’s solely qualification is that she has spent years as a loyal Trump cheerleader.
Lives might have been probably saved if Senate Republicans and the seven Senate Democrats who voted to verify her (Kim, Kaine, Slotkin, Peters, Hassan, Shaheen, and Fetterman) had stated no. Kaine and Kim have already publicly regretted their votes for Noem.
These Senators of each events who voted for an unqualified DHS nominee deserve blame as effectively.
Trump gained’t do away with anybody who’s loyal to him.
Sen. Wyden was proper. It’s harmful to have Kristi Noem operating DHS, and it could have gotten children killed in Texas.
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