Biden moves to fund Texas ‘disaster’ aid

JOE Biden is to declare a major disaster in frozen Texas so more federal cash can be spent on relief for millions of residents.

Spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed the new US president’s decision.

Some 14 million Texans are still without clean water after freak snow cut off power and caused pipes to burst, with some resorting to boiling snow.

Temperatures plunged to 30-year lows of -18C earlier this week.

Up to 3.3 million people were left without power and 180,000 homes and businesses are still cut off

Nearly 60 deaths across the country have been blamed on the weather.

Mr Biden has said he will visit Texas as long as his presence does not interfere with relief efforts.

PLAYFUL Leo Tompsett was killed by his mum Cheryl, 42, in a murder-suicide at Beachy Head in East Sussex in 2018.

Weeks earlier, police were called to the family home and two of Tompsett’s older children disclosed past abuse.

Officers were called out the next day and Tompsett said: “All my kids are dead to me.”

Police learned of incidents in which she threw a wooden toy at Leo’s dad Mark Woodhams and a laptop at an older child.

A court ruled contact with Leo should be supervised – but then ordered Tompsett, from Maidstone, Kent, should be allowed time alone with her son. Weeks later, she killed him then took her own life.

Mark, 47, backed our campaign and said: “You’d think the people a child can trust most with their life are their parents.

Leo’s mum betrayed that trust.”

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