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Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday stated criticisms over the federal response to the lethal flooding in Texas have been politically motivated, calling one Democratic lawmaker’s accusations “completely despicable.”
Noem appeared on “Fox Information Sunday,” the place she defended in opposition to claims that the FEMA response was delayed, and the assertion from Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., that President Donald Trump and Noem fired FEMA staff as flood victims referred to as the company.
“, this memo and this criticism, I believe, is all politics as a result of I used to be there,” Noem stated. “I used to be there and each time any person requested for one thing, we stated, completely, it will be right here as quickly as potential and it will be finished.”
Noem stated that she and over 700 FEMA staff have been within the space inside hours of a name with Texas officers. The Coast Guard additionally instantly deployed following the decision, she added.
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Noem stated FEMA’s response to the Texas floods was “the quickest” within the company’s historical past. (AP Photograph/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
The July Fourth floods killed at the least 129 folks in central Texas. Authorities consider greater than 160 folks should be lacking in Kerr County.
The secretary stated this operation was “the quickest in historical past that FEMA has ever responded to a catastrophe” and, not like FEMA’s poor observe report beneath the Biden administration, this time FEMA “operated how President Trump needed it to function.”
“I am very pleased with the truth that we did not go there and handle it,” she stated. “We went there and allowed the native officers to handle it, to run it. The state did a unbelievable job. We’re there to help and provides them what assets they want.”
Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem sits earlier than President Donald Trump arrives to talk at a roundtable dialogue with first responders and native officers at Hill Nation Youth Occasion Middle in Kerrville, Texas, throughout a tour to watch flood harm, Friday, July 11, 2025. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)
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When requested about Murphy’s claims about victims’ calls to FEMA going unanswered within the days following the lethal flooding resulting from firings, Noem referred to as his phrases “an absolute lie.”
“That’s what I believe is so disingenuous and horrible in regards to the state of affairs. No person was fired, no contracts have been ended, everyone was there answering calls and doing all they may to assist the folks of Texas,” Noem stated. “So the truth that Democrats are politicizing this whereas persons are nonetheless searching for their infants, they’re nonetheless searching for their members of the family, I believe it is completely despicable.”
Noem stated Individuals “must know the reality” of how Democrats are “making the most of this example to assist themselves politically.”
“It is a disservice not simply to the folks of Texas and these households which are going by means of grief proper now, it is a disservice to our nation,” she stated.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Murphy’s workplace for touch upon Noem’s remarks, however they didn’t instantly reply.
Noem was additionally requested a couple of federal decide issuing a brief restraining order in opposition to most of the ICE operations which were carried out in Southern California.
She referred to as the decide’s ruling “ridiculous” and stated the federal authorities will enchantment.
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“We all the time constructed our operations, our investigations on casework, on realizing people that we wanted to focus on as a result of they have been criminals, as a result of that they had carried out violent crimes in opposition to people of their communities or had overstayed their orders, had violated federal legal guidelines, and that’s all the time how that is finished,” Noem stated.
