KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents quickly enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way. Trump met Friday with first responders and other state and local officials gathered at an emergency operations center inside an expo hall in Kerrville. The president said his administration “is doing everything it can to help Texas” and insisted that good people were running the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Since the July 4 disaster, the president has been conspicuously silent on his past, repeated promises to do away with FEMA.
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