President Trump is inciting his bond with Deep Red Texas before a visit on Friday, where he will assess the deadly floods that killed more than 120 people.
Gov. Greg Abbot (R) has praised the administration for federal response to the disaster this week, even the Trump administration has cut the country’s climate and the weather agencies and officials continue to hit FEMA to an ax.
The cameradary is unlike California’s wildfire in January, where Trump and Democratic-Gow of that state. Gavin newsom Played a defect game for weeks Water access, loss of thousands of structures and a dozen deaths.
Critics argued that dealing with Trump’s two deadly disasters shows how he politicizes such events.
Jeremy Edwards, a former Biden White House and FEMA spokesman, said that he suspects that if the flood of Texas was in a state run by a Democrat, Trump’s feelings would be very different.
Edwards said, “I find it very difficult to imagine if this exact situation was going to be in the blue state with a Democratic Governor,
Other critics mentioned how Trump’s predecessors moved to large lengths to support communities, whether they went to politically tilt.
“What I saw during the Obama administration and Biden administration is the President working with the governor, regardless of the party, to support the affected community, whether it is in Florida with Biden and the village. [Ron] Michael Coin, head of Obama and former FEMA head of Biden administration, said, “Surfside building collapse, Hurricane Ian, Hurricane Milton… are working on one side.
“Until this administration, I have not really seen emergency management as politicization in that way,” Koen said.
Abbott is expected to join Trump in Texas, where he will first meet with the respondents, receive a briefing from the local elected officials and meet with the affected people, who will meet with the affected people.
For his share, Newsom also greeted Trump on Termac in California when he visited the kingdom soon after returning to the office, but before the visit, the President Threatened to stop Federal wildfire assistance on the investigation of state water management.
In Texas, some other details are in the game.
National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, which has National Weather Service, Cut hundreds of employees During a government overhaul earlier this year.
And Austin/San Antonio Weather Service Office Warning Coordination Meteorologist, who alerts the outside world about the agency’s forecasts, took, took one Trump administration purchase In April.
Some of the few cuts implemented by the Trump administration have been put into the spotlight, and continue to threaten.
Homeland Security Secretary Christie NoM, who is expected to join Trump on the ground in Texas, said this week FEMA should be “remake” Even when the agency responded to the flood and both NOEM and Trump insisted that such disaster response should be managed by the states.
“We do not manage these disasters as a federal government. The rule. We come in and support them, and this is what we did here in this position,” he said.
FEMA was particularly in the crosshair of GOP as Hurricane Helen killed North Carolina last year, and the then President Harris was dying during the 2024 election.
Northern Carolina’s disaster was plagued by rumors that FEMA was pulling out of red-areas and not helping the Republican houses, obstructing reaction under former President Biden several times.
A former Bush administration homeland official said that Trump’s response to Texas comes amid a change in the operation of the federal government this year.
“Disaster politics is always difficult, but this tragedy is amidst widespread efforts of the administration to reduce Dogi’s background and federal role in disaster response,” said the former Bush officer.
The former official said, “The President and the governor meet well and there are many sympathic on immigration, but these conditions generally get a level of sympathy that this President does not like to showcase,” said the former officer.
Meanwhile, the President does not seem so. He has praised his alliance with Abbott, cited as a factor in an integrated response to the flood at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
“Relations with Texas and Governor are clearly great with me,” Trump said. “The response has been incredible, and the fact that we got so well, I don’t think it’s a political thing, but we’ve got so well together, and it was very integrated. I think a lot of life has survived.”
But, if the administration faces negative reviews on the response in Texas, some critics have tilted in Trump past for a similar defect game.
Edwards, a senior communication advisor to The Century Foundation, said, “I think it is the work that it does with the economy. When the economy is bad, it is a Biden’s economy. When the economy is good, Trump’s economy is,” said Edwards, a senior communication advisor to The Century Foundation. “And I think, if the response and recovery occurs well – and I hope it does – it is Trump’s FEMA, but if the reaction is badly, it is the biden’s fame.”
