Ice Barbie Fiasco Forces Trump Into Humiliating Reversal

Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/ReutersThe White House is racing to do damage control on Kristi Noem—before it turns deadly. Donald Trump’s administration is quietly working to reverse the damage done to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, at Noem’s direction during her tenure as Homeland Security secretary. The former South Dakota governor was ousted in March, and now serves as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.While FEMA’s sworn mission is to help Americans before, during, and after disasters, a year marked by firings, re-hirings, frozen funds, and feuding among political appointees has plunged the agency into chaos. Now, after pushing Noem aside from FEMA oversight, the White House is scrambling to repair the agency—despite Trump’s repeated insistence that it should not exist in its current form.Read more at The Daily Beast.