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Trump spending cuts, his approach to climate change attacked as catalyst of catastrophic Texas flooding

Buddy DoyleBy Buddy DoyleJuly 6, 2025No Comments5 Mins Read
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Critics of President Donald Trump wasted no time blaming staffing cuts at the National Weather Service (NWS) for the widespread death and destruction caused by the floods in Texas, a reaction the White House called “shameful and disgusting.”

At least 59 people, including 21 children, have been confirmed dead from the flash floods along the Guadalupe River that began Friday. Eleven children and one counselor remain missing from a girls’ summer camp near the river, which flooded due to the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry. That storm made landfall over Mexico, but triggered massive unexpected thunderstorms over parts of Texas. 

“It only took 9 days for Trump’s cuts to the [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] to kill dozens of children in Texas when Tropical Storm Barry landed this week,” Grant Stern, the executive editor of Occupy Democrats, wrote on X. 

TEXAS FLOOD SURVIVORS SHARE HARROWING STORIES, SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THOSE STILL MISSING

“The people in Texas voted for government services controlled by Donald Trump and Greg Abbott,” added Ron Filipkowski, former federal prosecutor and the editor-in-chief of MediasTouchNews. “That is exactly what they (sic) getting.” 

“What has happened to the girls at Camp Mystic is EXACTLY what one of the country’s best meteorologists, John Morales, warned would happen,” added Rachel Bitecofer, assistant director at Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center for Public Policy. “Trump’s cuts to the NOAA & NWS have critically impacted storm prediction nationwide.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference Saturday, and acknowledged some of the criticisms regarding the nation’s flood notification systems, which included concerns that weather forecasts underestimated the amount of rain that ultimately fell. 

Noem noted that the Trump administration is “currently upgrading” the nation’s flood notification technology, which she described as “ancient.” 

DEADLY TEXAS FLOOD EXPOSES ‘NEGLECTED’ WEATHER ALERT SYSTEM TRUMP AIMS TO MODERNIZE

“When the [weather] system came over the area, it stalled,” Noem said during the press conference. “It was much more water, much like [what] we experienced during [Hurricane] Harvey, with the same type of system that was unpredictable in the way that it reacted in the way that it stopped right here and dumped unprecedented amounts of rain that caused a flooding event like this.”

Tom Fahy, legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, told NBC News that weather forecasting offices were adequately staffed, and “they issued timely forecasts and warnings leading up to the storm,” but he added that unfilled leadership positions were “clearly a concern.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Gov. Greg Abbott, discuss the ongoing efforts for recent flooding along the Guadalupe River during a news conference in Ingram, Texas, on Saturday, July 5, 2025, as Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief, Nim Kidd, left, looks on.

“The reason Trump defunded the National Weather Service leading to the deaths of all those girls in the Texas flood is because PROJECT 2025 THOUGHT WEATHER PREDICTION SCIENCE WAS TIED TO EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE,” musician Mikel Jollett wrote on X. 

WHITE HOUSE INSISTS FEMA IS TAKING HURRICANE SEASON ‘SERIOUSLY,’ BLASTS ‘SLOPPY’ REPORTING

Isaiah Martin, a Democratic candidate for Texas’s 18th Congressional District, called for an immediate congressional investigation into “the Republican DOGE cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service.”

“We saw the affects (sic) this weekend,” Martin wrote on X. “Trump defunded these agencies and we DEMAND answers. There MUST be *swift* accountability!” 

Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee did not directly blame Trump’s approach to climate change for the deaths, but he suggested the president’s efforts to peel back green energy funding are a contributing factor to increased catastrophic natural disasters, like this weekend’s flood in Texas. 

Severe flooding was reported Friday in Kerr County, Texas.

“It is hard to make the Texas flood tragedy worse, except to know that on the same day Trump signed a bill cratering solar and wind energy that is vital in the battle against the climate change making these torrential rains more frequent,” Inslee wrote on X this weekend. 

During an interview with CNN, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, added that he didn’t think it was helpful to have open leadership positions that, if filled, could “help prevent these strategies.”

“I don’t think it’s helpful to have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies,” Castro said, adding “we have to figure out in the future how we make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”

 

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called it “shameful and disgusting” to see that in the wake of this tragedy people are politicizing what took place.

”It’s shameful and disgusting that in the wake of tragedy, the left’s first instinct is to lie and politicize a disaster to target their political opponents. False claims about the NWS have been repeatedly debunked by meteorologists, experts, and other public reporting,” Jackson said. “The NWS did their job, even issuing a flood watch more than 12 hours in advance. The Trump Administration is grateful to the first responders who sprung into action to save hundreds lives during this catastrophe, and will continue to help the great state of Texas in their recovery efforts.”

Fox News’ Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.

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