Trump lands in Texas with promise of help to residents battered by Harvey

Trump lands in Texas with promise of help to residents battered by Harvey



President Trump landed in Texas late Tuesday morning with plans to tour the state’s emergency operations center and get briefed on the state’s worsening flooding crisis while rescuers are still pulling people from submerged homes.



The trip to Corpus Christi and Austin comes a day after Trump promised to bring swift financial help for a “long and difficult” recovery from the storm’s devastation, which he said would cost billions.



“We think you’re going to have what you need, and it’s going to go fast,” he said.



Congress has not outlined a plan to tackle the needs of Texas and Louisiana, the two states that took the brunt of Harvey, a hurricane now downgraded to a tropical storm.



State and local officials are still responding to the immediate safety threat and have not begun to fully assess the long-term costs of the epic storm, which has turned large parts of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, into a lake.