{"id":156698,"date":"2025-07-12T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-trump-tours-texas-disaster-zone-as-administration-dodges-questions-over-future-of-fema-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T07:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:55:55","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-trump-tours-texas-disaster-zone-as-administration-dodges-questions-over-future-of-fema-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-trump-tours-texas-disaster-zone-as-administration-dodges-questions-over-future-of-fema-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Trump tours Texas disaster zone as administration dodges questions over future of Fema – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

President praises flood response while state department begins issuing first of more than 1,350 termination notices \u2013 key US politics stories from Friday 11 July 2025
Donald Trump has defended the state and federal response to deadly flooding in Texas, while administration officials continue to dodge questions about his plans to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).
Speaking at a round table in Kerrville, Texas<\/a>, Trump said Fema deployed multiple emergency response units and praised all the officials involved in what he said was an effective and swift response.
\u201cEvery American should be inspired by what has taken place,\u201d Trump said. He called a reporter a \u201cbad person\u201d for asking a question about families of the dead who are saying that their loved ones could have been saved had emergency warnings<\/a> gone out before the flooding. Trump said: \u201cI think this has been heroism. This has been incredible, the job you\u2019ve all done.\u201d
Here are the key US politics<\/a> stories at a glance:
During a trip on Friday to look at the devastation caused by the catastrophic flooding<\/a> in Texas, Donald Trump claimed that state and federal officials had done an \u201cincredible job\u201d, saying of the disaster that he had \u201cnever seen anything like this\u201d.
The trip comes as he has remained conspicuously quiet about his previous promises to do away with the federal agency in charge of disaster relief.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US state department has begun issuing the first of more than 1,350 termination notices as part of a huge reorganisation<\/a> of US\u2019s diplomatic corps under the secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/a>, according to internal documents and US diplomats at the state department on Friday.
Career diplomats and other staff began to receive the notices on Friday morning, days after the supreme court lifted a ban<\/a> on the Trump administration<\/a> moving forward with mass firings of government employees that will affect hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
\u201cHearing \u2018I got mine!\u2019 around the floor,\u201d one current state department employee told the Guardian.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A farm worker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier in raids on two California cannabis farm sites as US immigration<\/a> authorities confirmed they arrested 200 workers after a tense standoff with authorities.
Jaime Alanis\u2019s death was confirmed in a social media post by the United Farm Workers advocacy group. \u201cWe tragically can confirm that a farm worker has died of injuries they sustained as a result of yesterday\u2019s immigration enforcement action,\u201d the post read<\/a>.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Tom Homan, the US border czar, has said he does not know what happened to the eight men deported to South Sudan<\/a> after the Trump administration<\/a> resumed sending migrants to countries that are not their place of origin, known as third countries.
\u201cThey\u2019re free as far as we\u2019re concerned. They\u2019re free, they\u2019re no longer in our custody, they\u2019re in Sudan,\u201d Homan told Politico<\/a> on Friday. \u201cWill they stay in Sudan? I don\u2019t know.\u201d
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump<\/a> appears poised to deliver weapons to Ukraine<\/a> by selling them first to Nato<\/a> allies in a major policy shift for his administration amid frustrations with Vladimir Putin<\/a> over stalling negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration<\/a> has killed nearly $15m in research<\/a> into Pfas contamination of US farmland, bringing to a close studies that public health advocates say are essential for understanding a worrying source of widespread food contamination.
The administration\u2019s move is \u201cnot just stupid, it\u2019s evil\u201d, a former EPA attorney said.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Myanmar\u2019s military leader praised Trump and asked him to lift sanctions<\/strong>, as the junta sought to capitalize on a tariff letter from the US president believed to be Washington\u2019s first public recognition of its rule<\/a>.
Trans teenagers who say gender-affirming care saved their lives<\/a><\/strong> are protesting as two leading US hospitals halt their treatments<\/a>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 10 July 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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