Noem demanding to sign off on all FEMA expenditures over $100K and staff says it’s impacting emergency response - FEMA regularly uses millions of dollars in federal funding to assist states in disaste

FEMA was activated after Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, where 59 people were killed by flash floods.

Multiple urban search and rescue teams from across the country that responded to the deadly floods in central Texas told CNN they were not deployed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency until at least Monday evening — days after any victim had been found alive.