Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem struck back directly at media attacks claiming DHS oversight negatively impacted the Federal Emergency Management Agency response to the deadly Texas floods early this month.

“Those claims are absolutely false,” Noem told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” discrediting the attacks sourcing anonymous FEMA holdovers from former President Joe Biden’s administration, potentially jilted by the Trump reorganization usurping their authority.

“Within just an hour or two after the flooding we had resources from the Department of Homeland Security there, helping those individuals in Texas. It was a heartbreaking scene.

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