GET ME REWRITE: While Ice Barbie puffs her lips and participates in performative videos, Texas flood victims are ignored or denied aid

 

Headline:  The Texas Tribune, 10/16/2025

Emily Foxhall reports:

Only about one-fifth of applicants for federal disaster assistance from Kerr County have been deemed eligible to get financial help so far, leaving hundreds without governmental aid more than three months after deadly floods ravaged the county on July 4. 

As of Oct. 11, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials had referred only 46% of Kerr County applications for its Individuals and Households Program to the next stage, where they are evaluated to receive money, a Texas Tribune analysis of federal data shows. 

That means 1,749 applications out of 3,228 still hadn’t been reviewed past the initial stage. 

And among those from Kerr County that officials did review for specific funding, FEMA found only 704 applications eligible — or about 22%.

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