Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem dismissed calls for her resignation following multiple reports that FEMA, under her department, had a slow response to deadly flooding in central Texas.
In response to a question on NBC News’s Meet the Press if there was a chance she would leave the role following Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) call for Noem to resign, Noem laughed and said, “No, there’s not. And I hadn’t heard that, but I don’t care what she thinks.”
Multiple reports have highlighted the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s slowed response to the disaster, with the New York Times reporting that FEMA did not answer thousands of calls in the wake of the disaster in large part because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers.
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