Kristi Noem under fire for $1 billion disaster relief 'logjam': 'Sitting on her desk'

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has created a "logjam" for roughly $1 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster prevention projects around the country, NOTUS reported on Wednesday morning.

Among the projects that have been essentially mothballed as a result of the delay is a plan to bury transmission lines near Los Alamos, New Mexico, to prevent the risk of wildfires, an issue that has occurred multiple times in the past. “We were approved last summer, and it’s been...