Pallone to Trump: Fire FEMA Boss Whose Delays Cost Lives in Texas Floods

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-6), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on President Trump to immediately fire Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson, citing his lack of qualifications and failed response to the deadly July 4th floods in Texas that killed at least 135 people, including “elementary school children—some as young as eight—who washed away in the night while FEMA fumbled.”

In a letter sent to the White House today, Pallone warned that Richardson “lacks not only the qualifications but the basic human urgency in emergency management to care for the nation’s people in our greatest hour of need.”

“When it comes to disaster response, our nation should not ‘wing it’ and, yet, that seems to be the leadership principle of…