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BREAKING: Donald Trump's week kicks off with nightmare news as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demands an immediate investigation into the disastrous cuts to the National Weather Service that resulted in mass deaths during the Texas flash flooding.

We all know exactly who is to blame here...

In a letter to the Commerce Department’s Acting Inspector General Roderick Anderson, Schumer requested that he "open an investigation into the scope, breadth, and ramifications of whether staffing shortages at key local National Weather Service (NWS) stations contributed to the catastrophic loss of life and property during the deadly flooding.”

Schumer pointed to reporting from The New York Times which revealed that crucial forecasting and coordination jobs at the San Antonio and San Angelo National Weather Service offices were vacant when the flooding hit last Friday — almost certainly a direct result of cuts pushed through by Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE initiative.

Roughly 560 workers were fired from the NWS earlier this year as a result of the MAGA gutting of our government. Critical funding was slashed in order to pave the way for more billionaire tax cuts.

Predictably, Trump is refusing to take responsibility for the deaths, claiming that the flooding was a "once-in-a-100-years" event. Even if that were the case — and it's worth noting that "once-a-100-years" events are going to happen more frequently now because of climate change — the flooding likely could have been predicted with adequate staffing.

Among the vacant positions in San Antonio and San Angelo were the warning coordination meteorologist, a science officer, a senior hydrologist, as well as additional "vital forecasting, meteorology and coordination roles." Had these positions been filled it's quite possible that the flash flooding could have been predicted with enough time to evacuate endangered areas and save lives.

"These are the experts responsible for modeling storm impacts, monitoring rising water levels, issuing flood warnings, and coordinating directly with local emergency managers about when to warn the public and issue evacuation orders," wrote Schumer. "To put it plainly: they help save lives."

At least 82 people are dead. The flooding in Kerry County alone devastated an all-girls Christian summer camp, killing at least 27 people. Schumer suspects that the reduced NWS staffing caused a breakdown in coordination with local emergency authorities.

"This is a national tragedy which people across the country are mourning. The American people deserve answers," he wrote.

Unless this investigation is carried out and Trump's cuts are reversed, tragedies like this one are going to happen over and over again. Republicans are dismantling every piece of this country and if they get their way, the rest of us will end up stuck in a devastated dystopia while the oligarchs ride off with all of our nation's wealth.

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