A report cited by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in her critique of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Wednesday was subject to “gross manipulation,” according to one of the study’s authors.

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, revealing more than twice as many Americans live in flood prone areas than FEMA's maps show.

Trump’s FEMA council, led by Kristi Noem, met amid U.S. floods to discuss major changes, including possibly shifting disaster response to state-level control.

(Reuters) -The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be eliminated in its current form and reconfigured to respond more effectively to natural disasters, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at a meeting on reforming FEMA on Wednesday.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has doubled down on her past calls to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — but also says it should be “remade” as the agency responds to floods in Texas.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Security was heavy along busy Canal Street as President Trump’s FEMA Review Council met inside the U.S. Customs House. The gathering marked just the panel’s second meeting, and members chose to hold it in New Orleans, one of the most disaster-tested cities in the nation.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem are expected to deliver remarks.

California frequently suffers some of the costliest disasters in the country. Now state officials fear they’ll be left to face them without federal funding.