Trump visits Texas amid fears over his plans to scrap disaster relief agency

President Donald Trump, right, and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Kelly Field air base in San Antonio (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Donald Trump has arrived in Texas to see the devastation from the state’s catastrophic flooding but he has remained conspicuously quiet about his promises to do away with the federal agency in charge of disaster relief.

The Trump administration is not backing away from its pledges to shut the Federal Emergency Management Agency and return disaster response to the states.