The Department of Homeland Security says it's making FEMA less "bloated." Opponents say that cost people their lives in Texas.

Homeland Security Kristi Noem hit back at The New York Times over a report finding thousands of victims couldn’t get through to FEMA as catastrophic flooding engulfed Central Texas. A Times report found the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to answer “nearly two-thirds” of all distress calls from victims of the catastrophe,

As lethal floods tore through Texas and the feds failed to quickly organize help, frustrated locals complained to one another about how useless the Trump administration was. In one message surfaced by public record requests,