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President Donald Trump can score a triple win by superseding a policy manual from the Obama administration and allowing churches to help relief efforts in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. It would be good policy and good politics, and more importantly help millions of Americans in desperate need.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump traveled to Naples, Florida, to visit with people affected by Hurricane Irma and thank Americans involved with the recovery efforts.

Congress already faces a daunting legislative session when it returns to Washington on Tuesday. But the massive destruction left in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas and Louisiana adds even more urgency — and fiscal maneuvering — as lawmakers craft a spending bill to keep the federal government operating.

Congress is already facing a massive legislative calendar when it returns to Washington: a spending bill to fund the government, dealing with the debt ceiling, the fate of Obamacare, and tax reform, the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas will be added to the “To Do” list.

HOUSTON, Texas — A video showing the Texas National Guard rolling into hurricane-ravished Houston received more than a million views.

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” James Lee Witt, who served as Director of FEMA under President Clinton, stated that normal rainstorms are leaving six to seven inches of rain thanks to climate change and more has to be done

President Donald Trump approved a declaration of a “major disaster” in California over the weekend, freeing up federal funds for flood relief in several rural counties in response to requests from Governor Jerry Brown and local residents.

President Donald Trump approved federal emergency relief funds Tuesday, following requests by California Governor Jerry Brown. The requests for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) aid pertain to flooding in January and the evacuation effort due to the risk of spillway collapse at the Oroville Dam.

The FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and their law enforcement partners are planning a comprehensive security plan in response to the terrorism and criminal threats facing the nation’s capital on Inauguration Day for President-elect Donald Trump, WTOP has learned.

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee told reporters on Capitol Hill Monday that after eight years of battling President Barack Obama’s hostility to oversight, the committee is ready to partner with President-elect Donald J. Trump on

Updated building codes in Texas require new school construction to also include tornado shelters but the cost of safety has a hefty price tag for taxpayers. Those storm safe rooms can run up to 30 percent higher in already costly construction.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Victims of Louisiana’s largest and most disastrous flood since Hurricane Katrina were told by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials that they will not see temporary housing units arrive until 2017.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is holding a series of emergency conference calls with all departments and agencies of the federal government requiring them to search for and vet “properties to temporarily house [unaccompanied alien children]” because “the need for facilities continues to grow.”

Scammers and fraudulent relief efforts are directly targeting Louisiana’s flood victims, U.S. Attorney Walt Green announced during a National Center for Disaster Fraud press conference.

The federal government has admitted that it unofficially uses the “Waffle House index” to judge how the populace is reacting to natural disasters in the south and east coastal areas of the country.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – As floodwaters have receded in southern Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards (D) is reporting the damage done will now exceed $8.7 billion.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – An oil spill of roughly 5,300 gallons on the Louisiana coast was contained near the Bay Long region over Labor Day weekend.

Despite being widely ignored by the national mainstream media and running short on donations and federal aid, some Louisiana flood victims will soon find refuge thanks to a small, Pennsylvania town.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – In the wake of historic flooding throughout the southeastern Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is now being criticized for moving too slow in aiding victims with temporary housing.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – As Louisiana flood victims begin to pick up the scraps of what is left of their homes and communities in the wake of unprecedented flooding, federal agencies are already warning residents to be cautious of fraudulent services and other scams.

Despite historic flooding across the southeast region of Louisiana, relief volunteers and organizations still say that donations have not matched the needs of those affected.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Louisiana’s high-volume agriculture industry is among the devastated after the southeast region of the state was soaked by overwhelming floodwaters.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – The State of Louisiana is not even two weeks out of a flooding crisis that killed 13 people and destroyed 60,000 homes and officials are already eyeing a potential tropical storm that could double the damage done.

President Barack Obama dismissed criticism that he spent too much time golfing on his Martha’s Vineyard vacation instead of visiting Louisiana after devastating historic flooding in the state.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Authorities went door to door and car to car to check for bodies Tuesday, and homeowners began the heartbreaking task of gathering up soaked family photos and mucking out houses dank with bayou mud, as the floodwaters started to recede across parts of southern Louisiana.

The convergence of anti-Trump protesters, Black Lives Matters groups and leftists, has raised questions about safety at the Republican National Convention. The execution of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Black Lives Matter protests after police shootings, and Islamic terrorist attacks in Orlando and France, has only heightened concerns.

The president of the Cleveland Ohio police union warns that cops and convention goers are “sitting ducks” at the 2016 Republican National Convention. The City of Cleveland is ill-equipped to handle the thousands of professional leftist, Black Lives Matter, and other protesters and there is just under a month to go before the convention.

During a visit to Orlando on Tuesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch promised that the Justice Department is “making $1 million in emergency funding available to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement,” even as Florida Governor Rick Scott’s request for $5 million in FEMA disaster relief was denied.

Victims of the 2012 Super Storm Sandy, still fighting for resolution of their flood insurance claims from the federally-administered National Flood Insurance Program, told Breitbart News they were stunned to learn that an attorney once deemed by a judge to have “unquestionably engaged in sanctionable conduct” had a role at the 2016 National Flood Conference held in Washington May 15 to May 18.

Videos taken by two amateur astronomers in mid-March show a meteor strike on the rings of Jupiter that could have been a planetary extinction event if an object of similar size hit Earth.

San Antonio, Texas, will serve as the new home of one of the U.S. Army National Guard’s new cyber units. The Guard has announced plans to activate thirteen new cyber units throughout 23 states by the end of fiscal year 2019. The effort is part of an ongoing growth of cyber forces throughout the Department of Defense.

With the Federal Emergency Management Agency urging all Californians to buy low-cost federally subsidized flood insurance in anticipation of the most powerful El Niño condition in history, residents should buy immediately.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, subject of the 2000 Julia Roberts film bearing her story and name, is scheduled to tour the Navajo Nation Tuesday to see the aftermath of last month’s Colorado mine spill.

Maryland officials had assumed that they could charge the federal government and FEMA–and thereby the US taxpayers–for tens of millions in damage caused by the rioting in Baltimore earlier this year.

President Barack Obama has granted Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s request for disaster funds for a state hit by devastating flooding. The Texas Governor requested a Presidential Disaster Declaration for Texas counties on Friday afternoon and the President granted the Governor’s request on Friday evening.

President Barack Obama told press corps in the Oval Office this morning that he spoke with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and assured him that Texas can count on the federal government to help Texans. The Lone Star State has sustained historic damage from catastrophic floodwaters that hit the state over the Memorial Day holiday and weekend.