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FEMA, Wildfires Loom Large In Noem Hearing
Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee pressed Kristi Noem, President-elect Trumps nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, on whether she would apply conditions to or withhold disaster aid based on politics at her confirmation hearing Friday. If confirmed, Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, would take office as wildfires ravage California. Both Trump...
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