# Texas Matters: Watering down FEMA, abortion pill access, Texas prisons' compassionate release and questions about Texas ocean desal

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Podcast: [Texas Matters](https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140)
Published: 2026-05-11T00:12:07+00:00
Episode link: https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/2026-05-10/texas-matters-watering-down-fema-abortion-pill-access-texas-prisons-compassionate-release-and-questions-about-texas-ocean-desal
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This week on Texas Matters: How the Trump administration is watering down FEMA. The prison system's compassionate release program is called a "failure." The threat to mail access to the abortion pill. And Texas is preparing to go all in on ocean desal.

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