During his first weekend back in the White House, Trump again visited North Carolina to scope out Helene damage and toured the aftermath of devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. But he also used those trips to sharply criticize the Biden administration and California officials.

While speaking to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office Monday, Trump set a 50-day deadline for Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine. The president said he plans to levy “secondary tariffs” of 100 percent on Moscow, should it fail to resolve the conflict.

The Department of Homeland Security secretary defended the federal government's response and denied that policy changes slowed the agency's deployment.

The administration supported search and rescue operations in Kerr County, Texas, after at least 120 people died and dozens went missing in deadly floods.

A reporter from CBS News Texas asked the president Friday if more lives could've been saved if emergency alerts were issued earlier.

Cuts made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Trump administration severely impaired its ability to respond to the devastating floods in central Texas.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has not budged in her belief that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be eliminated, Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon — and the reason has its roots in a white nationalist-adjacent conspiracy theory that has been bubbling below the surface in American politics for years.