President Donald Trump will visit Kerrville today, exactly one week after the tragedy that took at least 121 lives — a number expected to rise over coming days.
Air Force One is expected to land at San Antonio’s Kelly Field where the president will board the Marine One helicopter for an aerial view of the damage in Kerrville, according to multiple media reports, The president and First Lady Melania Trump are expected to arrive in Kerrville at 11:20 a.m., according to TV station KSAT, after which they plan to meet with families who lost loved ones in the disaster.
Trump will join a round table discussion at 1:10 p.m. that’s also expected to including Gov. Greg Abbott, U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn along with Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Noem has come under fire for implementing a new rule intended to stymie FEMA spending, which delayed the agency’s deployment to the Texas Hill Country by several days. Cruz has also taken heat for inserting language into Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” slashing spending on weather forecasting, and for vacationing in Greece while the flood hit his home state.
Further, Abbott is fielding criticism saying at a Tuesday press conference that asking which officials share blame for the scope of the flooding tragedy is the “word choice of losers.”
For his part, Trump has said he wants to “wean off [of] FEMA,” ultimately closing down the agency.
Even though Texas is one of the biggest recipients of FEMA disaster-relief funding, Abbott is helping the White House phase out the agency. The Lone Star State received more than $7 billion in FEMA relief over the past decade, the Houston Chronicle reports. Only Florida and Louisiana got more.
Trump is expected to deliver remarks about the natural disaster before leaving Kerrville at 2:15 p.m. and returning to San Antonio to board Air Force One before his final departure.
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This article appears in Jul 10-23, 2025.
