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Leaders of Texas town hit by floods frustrated over lack of answers from top emergency official
Officials in Ingram, Texas, which was hit hard by the July 4 floods, have urgent questions for their county’s emergency management coordinator.
After the catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas on July 4, 2025, users online claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was ultimately to blame for the flood's 100 deaths due to staffing cuts at the National Weather Service.
Democrats have questioned the effectiveness of the flash flood warning the weather service sent out on July 4, after floodwaters had already overwhelmed many areas in Kerr County.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut hundreds of jobs as the National Weather Service earlier this year.
The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.
Sen. Chuck Schumer is pressing the NWS’s watchdog to probe whether Trump’s cuts worsened the recent catastrophe.
The National Weather Service shared a timeline of alerts sent ahead of catastrophic flooding in Texas after an NYT report questioned whether staffing shortages may have made it harder for forecasters to coordinate responses with local emergency management ...
National TV news coverage of the catastrophic Texas floods evolved from real-time reporting during the immediate aftermath of the disaster on July 4 to sustained scrutiny of the litany of failures that worsened the crisis.
The White House is defending the National Weather Service and accusing some Democrats of playing politics in the wake of devastating floods in Texas.