BREAKING CNN:"Sources:FEMA'S Response to TX Flood Slowed by Noem's

[senseandsensibility]

Cost Controls"

Noem has introduced new rules that any expense of over 100,000 dollars must be approved by her. Because it wasn't, FEMA's search and rescue teams were not deployed until Monday.

And, Noem is still calling for the elimination of FEMA.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Nobody could find her?

Did anyone try looking for her out by the gravel pit?

[Dave Bowman]

2. Or the sewers.

[LiberalArkie]

14. Maybe only works 8-5 M-F

[FakeNoose]

25. Her phone doesn't work on holiday weekends

[Jack Valentino]

46. and her brain doesn't work Monday through Sunday.

[Omnipresent]

51. Her brain is the size of a marble, bouncing around in a tin can.

That’s the noise people hear, when she’s walking around!

[Maru Kitteh]

40. Passed out under the steering wheel of Whiskey Pete's 4x4.

Holidays and all.

[Dave Bowman]

3. That abomination has a lot of blood on her hands.

[johnnyfins]

36. I was going with "ghoul", but abomination

Works well too.

[Dave Bowman]

47. I tend to associate the word "ghoul" Giuliani but in this case it's perfect.

[sop]

4. She'll blame it on her allergies.

[durablend]

7. Biden gave her allergies too? /s

[Dave Bowman]

48. Lol, I guess they find him very generous.

[Torchlight]

5. She'll say she responded before ted cruz left his European vacation

and pass off to him the fickle finger of fate.

[durablend]

6. CNN is getting sued again

[wcmagumba]

8. Her hair extensions got tangled and led to the unfortunate neglect of duty...r

But she is back to looking fabulous while sunbathing at the gravel pit...

[BoRaGard]

9. the republicon was busy shopping for her latest cosplay outfit

[enigmania]

12. She makes me sick.

[Permanut]

27. OMG The Maga Lardo look.

[Farmer-Rick]

50. I don't care how good your plastic surgeon is

Up close you can clearly tell when someone gets work done. It gives you this plastic flat look. Even just minor filling and injections are obvious. Do these Maga women think we can't tell?

I think Trump has vision problems and thinks these women look good because he has blurry vision. Even his Slovanian Sex worker clearly looks altered, weirdly plastic and angry all the time.

[Wild blueberry]

10. Negligent homicide

Guessing at least one of the families of the girls at camp will sue her.

[IronLionZion]

11. Republicans are super efficient like that, saving the taxpayers so much money

As if the impacted people aren't taxpayers too.

GOP politicians always claim government is the problem because GOP run government is the problem.

[markodochartaigh]

17. Your comment is so true that there is even a book about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(Frank_book)

"Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."

[IronLionZion]

19. It feels like a circular self-fulfilling prophecy

GOP run areas have bad government. The voters there conclude that government is bad. Rinse and repeat.

[senseandsensibility]

23. Yup

What a grift.

[senseandsensibility]

33. But the money they save is the money

that actually helps the people. That's literally the only kind of money they're interested in saving. Money for billionaires? That's always cool with them.

[snowybirdie]

13. Well it was

A Holiday weekend! Her and Corey had a trist and didn't want to surface

[GiqueCee]

15. I'd never get downwind of her...

... evil of that horrific magnitude has such a noxious, stomach-churning odor. It reeks of dead puppy.

[mgardener]

41. Or satan

[ananda]

16. Geez, we have so many psychopaths and crazies in government it's unreal!

I can hardly wrap my mind around it.

[TBF]

18. It will be interesting to see if she survives this -

many of the girls who go to Camp Mystic are from very wealthy families. Not just "well off" families, but "great grandfather was so-and-so billionaire" type of families. There may be some fall-out this time.

[aeromanKC]

30. For example: Clark Hunt $25 Billion (Kansas City Chiefs owner)

9 year old niece Camp Mystic victim.

[TBF]

59. Yeah - that's Hunt Oil.

The elite of Texas get their daughters on the waiting list early. Former first lady Laura Bush was a counselor there, Ted Cruz's daughters camp there.

[mgardener]

42. There damn well should be.

[Codifer]

20. Crisis actress.

[Botany]

21. Priorities here people! Which Cos-Play outfit is the best? Those dead kids in Texas will still be dead.

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[Hope22]

32. The one with the dead dog strapped to her saddle.....

[SergeStorms]

22. Who in hell is going to interupt......

her puppy killing in order to give her the news of a natural disaster?

I know I wouldn't want to shoulder that responsibility!

[FakeNoose]

24. Don't eliminate FEMA ... just eliminate Kristi Noem

Problem solved

[CentralMass]

26. She was busy bullwhipping rounded up children.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Too busy working on her Flood Rescue Barbie costumes and make up.

[wnylib]

29. Keep FEMA. Eliminate Noem.

[malaise]

35. Even idiot Mike Pence came out in support of FEMA

FEMA, tariffs, midterm elections
Pence broke with Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, who on Wednesday — in the wake of the disastrous flooding in Texas — reiterated her desire to “eliminate” the Federal Emergency Management Agency and remake the way it operates.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/10/politics/pence-trump-ukraine-iran

[Hope22]

31. She is sick...

…and definitely in the wrong job. Beyond insane to postpone search and rescue of children. We live in a heartless societal structure!

[GAJMac]

34. And I call

And I call for the elimination of Noem. She's got to go.

[Hassler]

37. Plastic Yard Gnome had to pick the right costume

For Flood Disaster Cosplay.

[zorbasd]

38. Similar flood situation in South Dakota in 2024

as Governor. Heavy rains were about to wash up several homes at McCormick lake, SD. She was warned of the serious flooding, but chose to go to a GOP fundraiser out of town totally oblivious to the circumstances at hand...many houses destroyed as flood waters were diverted to the lake making things worse...she's evil and incompetent.

[Sessuch]

39. It seems that whatever Trump touches dies A new AD

"An ex-governor of South Dakota admitted to killing her dog. A Homeland Security Chief deported a Venezuelan to Bolivia. All this thanks to President, Donald J. Trump."

[mgardener]

43. And

The Republicans that support them

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

44. Kr-isis-ti No-empathy

[Beartracks]

45. Republicans hobble Govt agencies so they can then target those agencies for being ineffective.

This is by design.

Remember, kids: Government isn't the problem; Republicans in government is the problem.

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[summer_in_TX]

49. Weird. Noem had time to rush to Texas on Saturday to be sure to get maximum PR, but didn't

have time to approve the actual vital FEMA work that might have saved lives or allow the process of recovery to begin?

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[mucifer]

52. I hope this catches on all I keep hearing from

MSM except NPR. They are reporting the cuts. But the networks and AP all seem to blame the local officials.

[underpants]

53. Her actual excuse- it's the state's job. FEMA just assists.

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

[milestogo]

54. The cruelty is the point.

So I guess you could say she is perfect for the job.

[snot]

55. Source?

Always helpful – thanks.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. FEMA Didn't Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show (NYT Gift Subcription)

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

They'll still blame Biden somehow, rather than the NWS firings, or fema cuts.

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show - The New York Times share.google/8VIrQnTgnqOe...

— Oldstonydude (@oldstonydude.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T17:20:44.589Z

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.BQP3.cDmKuRLfIEQP&smid=tw-share

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.

The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contracts until Thursday, five days after the contracts expired. FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

The details on the unanswered calls on July 6, which have not been previously reported, come as FEMA faces intense scrutiny over its response to the floods in Texas that have killed more than 120 people. The agency, which President Trump has called for eliminating, has been slow to activate certain teams that coordinate response and search-and-rescue efforts......

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.

Some FEMA officials grew frustrated by the lapse in contracts and that it was taking days for Ms. Noem to act, according to the person briefed on the matter and the documents. “We still do not have a decision, waiver or signature from the DHS Secretary,” a FEMA official wrote in a July 8 email to colleagues......

Democratic lawmakers raised concern on Friday that Ms. Noem’s insistence on approving expenses over $100,000 had also delayed FEMA’s deployment of search-and-rescue teams to Texas. In a letter to David Richardson, FEMA’s acting administrator, the Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote that Ms. Noem did not authorize the deployment of those teams until July 7, three days after the flooding began.

[BoRaGard]

57. shameful G.O.P. dereliction of duty -

repubes need to snap out of their darkside trance, and so something positive or at least competent for a change.

[senseandsensibility]

58. After Murkowski's capitulation on the big ugly bill

I have lost every speck of hope I had in any R to do anything under any circumstances.

[roamer65]

60. Just wait until the next Cat 5 hurricane.