"In a repulsive show of cowardice and buck-passing, Texas Governor Greg Abbott went on a bizarre tangent about how asking who’s to blame for the historic flood disaster that has killed at least 111 people was for 'losers' and compared the tragedy to…a football game."

~ Daily Dose of Democracy

#ClimateChange #NWS#NOAA#FEMA#Trump#Texas#GregAbbott
/13

https://doseofdemocracy.com/greg-abbott-denigrates-flood-victims-in-vile-exchange/

"Then county commissioner Tom Moser told the reporters: 'It was probably just, I hate to say the word, priorities. Trying not to raise taxes.'”

#ClimateChange #NWS#NOAA#FEMA#Trump#Texas
/8

"Scott Calvert, John West, Jim Carlton, and Joe Barrett of the Wall Street Journal reported that after a deadly flood in 1987, officials in Kerr County applied for a grant to install a flood warning system, but their application was denied. They considered installing one paid for by the county but decided against it."

#ClimateChange #NWS#NOAA#FEMA#Trump#Texas
/7

"[Greg] Abbott’s defensive answer [when asked who's to blame for the Texas tragedy] reveals the dilemma MAGA Republicans find themselves in after the cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service that came before the Texas disaster."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#ClimateChange #NWS#NOAA#FEMA#Trump#Texas
/6

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-8-2025

(continued from /4):

"and thus the suffering of the people affected by it — but to revoke funding for the very data collection and research that would help the country better understand and prepare for this moment."

#ClimateChange #NWS#NOAA#FEMA#Trump#Texas
/5

"Fatalities in billion-dollar storms last year alone were nearly equal to the number of such deaths counted by the federal government in the 20 years between 1980 and 2000.

What is extraordinary is that at such a volatile moment, President Donald Trump’s administration would choose not just to minimize the climate danger —"

#ClimateChange #NWS#NOAA#FEMA#Trump#Texas
/4

"The journalists also note that the Trump administration's 2026 budget calls for eliminating 'all of NOAA’s weather and climate research labs along with institutes jointly run with universities around the country.'”

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/11

"Reporter: Why was the NWS not pinging their phones before 7? Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe? [Kristi] Noem: 'Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the NWS. We needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government.'”

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/16

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-a79

"Watch the numbers of people killed in the Texas flooding increase over the next few days. It is hurricane season, so watch for the coverage of those storms and their body counts.

Everybody will forget the numbers in Kentucky and Texas except the families and friends of the dead."

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/14

"Follow up reporting proved her statement about local NWS offices to be a lie, but reports about her lies had become so numerous that the one about the NWS just disappeared down the memory-hole with all her other lies.

The tornado that tore through Kentucky happened back in late May. It killed 19 people, according to the Louisville Courier Journal. Do you remember that number? I didn’t. I had to look it up."

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/13

"When tornados recently swept through Missouri and Tennessee and Kentucky, there were a few reports about local NWS office staffing shortages. The reports were explained away the next day by Caroline Leavitt at the White House saying that the cuts had not affected 'overnight' staffing at local offices."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/12

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-what-happens-when-everything

"The journalists also note that the Trump administration's 2026 budget calls for eliminating 'all of NOAA’s weather and climate research labs along with institutes jointly run with universities around the country.'”

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/11

"CNN’s Andrew Freedman, Emma Tucker, and Mary Gilbert note that several NWS offices across the country are so understaffed they can no longer operate around the clock, and many are no longer able to launch the weather balloons that provide critical data."

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/10

(continued from /8):

"'form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity,' by which it meant the fossil fuel industry."

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/9

"Officials will continue to examine the crisis in Texas but, coming as it did after so many deep cuts to government, it has opened up questions about the public cost of those cuts. Project 2025 called for breaking up and downsizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, claiming its six main offices—including the National Weather Service—"

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/8

"All five living former directors of the NWS warned in May that the cuts '[leave] the nation’s official weather forecasting entity at a significant deficit…just as we head into the busiest time for severe storm predictions like tornadoes and hurricanes…. Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.'"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/7

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-6-2025

"There’s a similar story at the NWS. Former NWS meteorologist Brian Lamarre explained to NPR in May that the NWS had 5,000-6,000 employees 30 years ago. That has gradually whittled down to 4,500 — and then another 550 were cut by DOGE or quit without being replaced. As a result, “for the first time in the history of the National Weather Service, the agency is below 4,000 people.”

#Trump#Texas #NWS#NOAA
/6

"After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in Texas has left at least 24 dead with dozens more missing, including several young girls at a summer camp, Texas officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Donald Trump’s new National Weather Service gutted by cuts to their operating budget and most experienced personnel."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #weather#Texas #flooding #NWS
/1

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted

"However, Trump was seen dancing on the balcony of the White House last night celebrating the latest round of cuts in his budget bill that just became law so billionaires and corporations can have huge tax cuts."

There will, sad to say, be more and more consequences to the path we — many of us — have chosen for our nation, serious, lethal consequences.

#Trump #weather#Texas #flooding #NWS
/3