FEMA Chief Responds to Criticisms, Calls Texas Flood Response ‘Model’ for Future Disasters

Responding to recent criticisms, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) acting Administrator David Richardson said the federal response to the catastrophic Texas floods earlier this month was exemplary.

“I can’t see anything that we did wrong,” Richardson told a House panel of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on July 23, calling the relationship between state and federal agencies “a model for how disasters should be handled.”