Kristi Noem Renews Call to Eliminate FEMA Even Amid Texas Flood

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reiterated her call to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, even as the organization helps in search and recovery efforts following the catastrophic flooding in Texas that’s left more than 100 people dead.

“This entire agency needs to be eliminated as it existed and remade into a responsive agency,” she said via video link at a meeting of the FEMA Review Council, held in New Orleans. “Federal Emergency Management should be state and locally led, rather than how it has operated for decades.”

President Donald Trump established the council in January to examine FEMA’s structure, ...