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,

"Those claims are absolutely false," Noem said. "Within just an hour or two after the flooding, we had resources from the Department of Homeland Security there."

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited Texas to survey the damage from last week’s devastating floods.

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