Democratic senators took issue with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Wednesday for moves to roll back management standards in areas prone to flooding.
In a letter shared exclusively with POLITICO’s E&E News, seven Democrats invoked recent deadly flooding in Texas as reason for HUD to pump the brakes on plans to ease regulations for buildings constructed in floodplains.
The letter was led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee.
“Choosing this moment to rescind safeguards backed by decades of evidence — literally days after floods have devastated communities and claimed lives in Central Texas and beyond — shows just how disconnected this Administration is from the people of this country,” the senators wrote.
