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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Maria Alejandra CardonaKERRVILLE, Texas (Reuters) -President Donald Trump defended the state and federal response to deadly flash flooding in Texas on Friday as he visited the stricken Hill Country region,
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Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.
Donald Trump has suggested that people were given “a lot of warning” ahead of the devastating floods in the Texas Hill Country on July 4.“The way this happened, there was a very early warning – warned a day before,
The U.S. President traveled to central Texas to survey damage from the July 4 flash flood that killed at least 120 people.
President Donald Trump has avoided talk of scrapping the federal disaster response agency after the catastrophic flash flood in Texas that killed more than 100 people, including children at an all-girls camp.
"It’s hard to believe the devastation," Trump said. "Trees that are 100 years old just ripped out of the ground. I've never seen anything like this, and I've seen a lot of bad ones."
The Homeland Security chief denied that a memo she issued in June requiring her to approve FEMA expenditures over $100,000 caused the agency to move more slowly.
At least 24 people were dead and many missing after torrential rains unleashed flash floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
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