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 Texas Flood Disaster: The Deadly Cost of Trump’s DOGE Cuts and NOAA Collapse
07/06/25 08:05 AM
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Texas Flood Disaster: The Deadly Cost of Trump’s DOGE Cuts and NOAA Collapse
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT, DISASTER RESPONSE, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, NEWS, OPCANARY, POLITICS AND POLICY
July 5, 2025
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Composite image of Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Elon Musk, and DOGE logo over Texas flood destruction background.
“States can’t fill the gap left by these cuts… Weather doesn’t respect state borders” — Dr. Henry Jacoby, MIT
*The July 2025 floods, linked to the remnant tail of Tropical Storm Barry, dropped over 5–11 inches of rain in a few hours, sending the Guadalupe River surging more than 26 feet
*Local officials and Texas emergency management chief Nim Kidd say the flood’s scale exceeded NWS predictions, prompting questions about warning timeliness
*Meteorologist defend the NWS, noting the agency issued a flood watch, warning, and emergency alert, but acknowledged the storm was a rare, high-impact event
*The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), created by Donald Trump and Elon Musk’, eliminated nearly 600 NOAA/NWS jobs, and paused critical forecasting tools, actions experts say weakened forecasting capacity before the storm
*Experts warn that sustained federal cuts degrade national preparedness: “States can’t fill the gap left by these cuts… Weather doesn’t respect state borders”
*As floodwaters surged through the Texas Hill Country early Friday, rising more than 26 feet in less than an hour, they left a trail of destruction rarely seen in the region and killing at least 51 people, including many young girls at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe river. Many more are missing.
The storm’s toll is now raising urgent questions about the role of government policy, in Washington and Austin, in compounding the disaster. Federal weather and emergency agencies had been gutted by budget cuts, staffing reductions, and a systematic rollback of climate protections in the months leading up to the floods. As the disaster unfolded Donald Trump signed the $4 trillion One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which eliminates key climate and clean energy programs, expanded fossil fuel development, and slashed Medicaid funding.
A Storm Forecasted, A Response Sabotaged….
https://spookyconnections.com/2025/07/05/texas-flood-2025-trump-doge-cuts-noaa-delayed-warnings/
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