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On the recordJuly 18, 2025
What you saw happen in Texas was much more how FEMA will look in the future. It won’t look like the response to [Hurricane] Katrina, or the response to even [Hurricane] Helene, and what happened in North Carolina, where people waited weeks and weeks and months and months for help.
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Kristi Noem
Republican · South Dakota

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Noem discusses the future of FEMA's disaster response during a press conference.

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