Inside of noaa, which is the bigger agency that includes the National Weather Service, there are internal reports of, quote, very severe staffing shortages. That's serious. As Texans face more floods and fires and freezes. The administration has said that they want to basically abolish FEMA as it exists today. We need to know if they've been dismantling FEMA this entire past few months. What impact did that have on this flood? We need those transparent answers in an independent investigation, because this isn't about politics. (06:34–06:41)
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Asserts that the administration intends to abolish FEMA in its current form.
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