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<div class="post_title"><h1>President Donald Trump on Top of Hurricane Harvey Response</h1></div>
<div class="author">By <span class="author_name"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-jasper-fakkert">Jasper Fakkert</a></span></div> <div class="date">
<span>August 26, 2017 5:43 pm</span>
<span class="update">Last Updated: August 27, 2017 12:28 pm</span>
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<div class="featured_caption">President Donald Trump conducts a video teleconference regarding an update on Hurricane Harvey, on Aug. 26, 2017, from a conference room at Camp David. The president has been closely overseeing the federal response and relief efforts for Texas. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)</div> </div>
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<p>President <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> has been closely involved in the federal government&#8217;s preparation and response to <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-hurricane-harvey">Hurricane Harvey</a>, the first major natural disaster to hit the United States since he took office.</p>
<p>On Friday evening, before the hurricane made landfall in Texas, President Trump expedited and signed a disaster proclamation for the state of Texas at the request of Governor Greg Abbott.</p>
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<p>Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Brock Long told <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/fema-helping-texas-hurricane-harvey-49435117" target="_blank">ABC News</a> that the proclamation allowed FEMA to &#8220;bring the entire firepower of the federal government down to help our state and local governments meet their responsibility and recovery goals.&#8221;</p>
<p>Long, who was appointed by Trump to head the agency earlier this year, said that his teams had been in Texas already well before the hurricane hit.</p>
<p>The responsibility of FEMA is to provide help to state and local governments at their request.</p>
<figure id="attachment_2286983" style="width: 580px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2017/08/26/2017-08-26T200032Z_1_LYNXNPED7P0KU_RTROPTP_4_STORM-HARVEY.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-2286983"><img class="lazy size-medium wp-image-2286983" src="/assets/themes/eet/images/white.png" data-src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2017/08/26/2017-08-26T200032Z_1_LYNXNPED7P0KU_RTROPTP_4_STORM-HARVEY-580x368.jpg" alt="A woman leaves the doorway of a destroyed house after Hurricane Harvey struck Fulton, Texas, August 26, 2017. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking)" width="580" height="368" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><noscript><img class="size-medium wp-image-2286983" src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2017/08/26/2017-08-26T200032Z_1_LYNXNPED7P0KU_RTROPTP_4_STORM-HARVEY-580x368.jpg" alt="A woman leaves the doorway of a destroyed house after Hurricane Harvey struck Fulton, Texas, August 26, 2017. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking)" width="580" height="368" /></noscript></a> A woman leaves the doorway of a destroyed house after <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-hurricane-harvey">Hurricane Harvey</a> struck Fulton, Texas, August 26, 2017. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking)</figcaption></figure>
<p>The hurricane came ashore near Port Lavaca late on Friday with maximum winds of 130 mph. That made it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the second-highest category and the most powerful storm in over a decade to hit the mainland United States.</p>
<p>The president received multiple updates from his Chief of Staff in the evening and in the morning on the hurricane.</p>
<p>&#8220;Closely monitoring #HurricaneHarvey from Camp David. We are leaving nothing to chance. City, State and Federal Govs. working great together!,&#8221; President Trump wrote in a tweet on Saturday.</p>
<figure id="attachment_2287028" style="width: 580px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2017/08/26/Screen-Shot-2017-08-26-at-5.50.49-PM.png" rel="attachment wp-att-2287028"><img class="lazy size-medium wp-image-2287028" src="/assets/themes/eet/images/white.png" data-src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2017/08/26/Screen-Shot-2017-08-26-at-5.50.49-PM-580x385.png" alt="President Donald Trump is seen on screen in the White House Situation Room, as he conducts a video teleconference regarding an update on Hurricane Harvey, from a conference room at Camp David, on Aug. 26, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)​" width="580" height="385" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><noscript><img class="size-medium wp-image-2287028" src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2017/08/26/Screen-Shot-2017-08-26-at-5.50.49-PM-580x385.png" alt="President Donald Trump is seen on screen in the White House Situation Room, as he conducts a video teleconference regarding an update on Hurricane Harvey, from a conference room at Camp David, on Aug. 26, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)​" width="580" height="385" /></noscript></a> President <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> is seen on screen in the White House Situation Room, as he conducts a video teleconference regarding an update on Hurricane Harvey, from a conference room at Camp David, on Aug. 26, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)​</figcaption></figure>
<p>White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Friday that the President will visit Texas early next week. </p>
<p>Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert said at a press conference on Friday that the president&#8217;s main concern was whether the people affected by the storm would be helped.</p>
<p>&#8220;When we go in and brief him on preparations for this hurricane, he is acutely focused on making sure … that the American people in the storm&#8217;s path have what they need,&#8221; Bossert said.</p>
<p>&#8220;His questions were about &#8216;Are you doing what it takes to help people affected by this storm?'&#8221;</p>
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<p>During a teleconference call with cabinet officials on Saturday, President Trump instructed his cabinet to &#8220;stay fully engaged and positioned to support his number one priority of saving lives,&#8221; according to a statement by the White House.</p>
<p>President Trump said that the full impact of the storm was to occur over the next few days as a result of heavy rains and flooding.</p>
<p>While thousands fled the expected devastating flooding and destruction, many residents stayed put in imperiled towns and stocked up on food, fuel, and sandbags.</p>
<p>Texas and Louisiana declared states of disaster before Harvey hit, authorizing the use of state resources to prepare.</p>
<p>The size and strength dredged up memories of Katrina, the 2005 hurricane that made a direct hit on New Orleans as a Category 5 storm, causing levees and flood walls to fail in dozens of places. About 1,800 died in the disaster made worse by a slow government emergency response.</p>
<p>The president also instructed his federal team to support the governors of Texas and Louisiana.</p>
<p>FEMA director Brock said that heavy rainfall was expected to continue for days.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is just the beginning. We are going to see over the next 48 to 72 hours devastating rainfall,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Both in a White House statement and in a tweet on Saturday the president thanked volunteers for their help with the disaster relief in Texas.</p>
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<p>&#8220;He sends his thanks to the many volunteer and faith-based organizations that are dedicating their time and effort to helping their fellow Americans,&#8221; said the White House in the statement.</p>
<p>&#8220;The President and Vice President extend their thoughts and prayers to those affected.&#8221;</p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reuters contributed to this report.</span></i></p>
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