Doge reduced warning and response time for the Texas flood.

[defcon4]

Well I have to give it to the them/they/their crowd that they are very disciplined and not deviating from their agenda. One cannot have an intelligent conversation with them because the reply is "DOGE", "NWS cuts", "FEMA" and "Texans voted for it" while being happy about the tragedy.
Their guiding principles are:

Rahm Emmanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

Saul Alinsky: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become apositive.”

 

[Nostra]

Doge taking a chain saw to our weather monitoring and warning systems and to FEMA has made the tragedy of the Texas flood even worse than it had to be. Those agencies were in place for a reason, and should have never been degraded by someone who didn't even understand why we need those agencies.


Yes, it's quite possible that victims of the recent Texas flood could have received earlier or more effective warnings if not for cuts and policy shifts tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and former President Donald Trump's administration.


What Happened in Texas?


On July 4, 2025, catastrophic flash flooding struck areas along the Guadalupe River, leading to fatalities and widespread emergency rescues. Local authorities issued urgent warnings, but the scale and speed of the flooding overwhelmed many systems.


How DOGE and Trump’s Policies May Have Affected This


According to investigative reporting from the Texas Observer and San Antonio Current, the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative significantly impacted federal disaster preparedness and response:

• FEMA Cuts: DOGE slashed FEMA’s workforce by about 20% and froze parts of its funding.
• Disaster Aid Shift: Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA and shift disaster response responsibilities to individual states, arguing governors should handle emergencies independently.
• Climate Risk Data Degradation: DOGE reportedly dismantled or degraded federal resources that track and model climate-augmented weather risks, such as flood forecasting and early warning systems.
• Infrastructure Investment Delays: Federal support for flood prevention projects—like levees and drainage upgrades—was reduced or delayed, leaving vulnerable areas more exposed.

Could Earlier Warnings Have Been Possible?


While local agencies like the Harris County Flood Control District did issue warnings, the broader federal infrastructure that supports early detection, modeling, and communication of extreme weather risks may have been weakened. This could have:

• Reduced the lead time for warnings
• Limited the accuracy of flood forecasts
• Slowed coordination between federal and local responders

So while it's speculative to say definitively that lives would have been saved, the evidence strongly suggests that federal cuts and policy shifts under DOGE and Trump made Texas—and its residents—more vulnerable to disasters like this one.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

go.skimresources.com

Henry is a far left lunatic. No wonder you worship his lies.

 

[JimH52]

local emergency people said they relied exclusively on NWS but there was no indication that there would be that much rain at those points. This is something the NWS has historically been pretty accurate with.

Thank YOU DOGE!

 

[XponentialChaos]

I just saw that the death toll went up to 67.

Wow. What a tragedy.

 

[rightwinger]

Thread 'Doge reduced warning and response time for the Texas flood.'

Jul 5, 2025

Doge taking a chain saw to our weather monitoring and warning systems and to FEMA has made the tragedy of the Texas flood even worse than it had to be. Those agencies were in place for a reason, and should have never been degraded by someone who didn't even understand why we need those agencies.


Yes, it's quite possible that victims of the recent Texas flood could have received earlier or more effective warnings if not for cuts and policy shifts tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and former President Donald Trump's administration.


What Happened in Texas?


On July...

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FAIL once again
Provide a link that actually proves your claim

 

[Nostra]

FAIL once again
Provide a link that actually proves your claim

Just did, loser.

Keep losing, it’s what you do best.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Doge taking a chain saw to our weather monitoring and warning systems and to FEMA has made the tragedy of the Texas flood even worse than it had to be. Those agencies were in place for a reason, and should have never been degraded by someone who didn't even understand why we need those agencies.


Yes, it's quite possible that victims of the recent Texas flood could have received earlier or more effective warnings if not for cuts and policy shifts tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and former President Donald Trump's administration.


What Happened in Texas?


On July 4, 2025, catastrophic flash flooding struck areas along the Guadalupe River, leading to fatalities and widespread emergency rescues. Local authorities issued urgent warnings, but the scale and speed of the flooding overwhelmed many systems.


How DOGE and Trump’s Policies May Have Affected This


According to investigative reporting from the Texas Observer and San Antonio Current, the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative significantly impacted federal disaster preparedness and response:

• FEMA Cuts: DOGE slashed FEMA’s workforce by about 20% and froze parts of its funding.
• Disaster Aid Shift: Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA and shift disaster response responsibilities to individual states, arguing governors should handle emergencies independently.
• Climate Risk Data Degradation: DOGE reportedly dismantled or degraded federal resources that track and model climate-augmented weather risks, such as flood forecasting and early warning systems.
• Infrastructure Investment Delays: Federal support for flood prevention projects—like levees and drainage upgrades—was reduced or delayed, leaving vulnerable areas more exposed.

Could Earlier Warnings Have Been Possible?


While local agencies like the Harris County Flood Control District did issue warnings, the broader federal infrastructure that supports early detection, modeling, and communication of extreme weather risks may have been weakened. This could have:

• Reduced the lead time for warnings
• Limited the accuracy of flood forecasts
• Slowed coordination between federal and local responders

So while it's speculative to say definitively that lives would have been saved, the evidence strongly suggests that federal cuts and policy shifts under DOGE and Trump made Texas—and its residents—more vulnerable to disasters like this one.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

go.skimresources.com

Waiting for this thread to be booted to the Conspiracy forum - since it is one hundred percent absolutely and provably false.

 

[Nostra]

Doge taking a chain saw to our weather monitoring and warning systems and to FEMA has made the tragedy of the Texas flood even worse than it had to be. Those agencies were in place for a reason, and should have never been degraded by someone who didn't even understand why we need those agencies.


Yes, it's quite possible that victims of the recent Texas flood could have received earlier or more effective warnings if not for cuts and policy shifts tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and former President Donald Trump's administration.


What Happened in Texas?


On July 4, 2025, catastrophic flash flooding struck areas along the Guadalupe River, leading to fatalities and widespread emergency rescues. Local authorities issued urgent warnings, but the scale and speed of the flooding overwhelmed many systems.


How DOGE and Trump’s Policies May Have Affected This


According to investigative reporting from the Texas Observer and San Antonio Current, the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative significantly impacted federal disaster preparedness and response:

• FEMA Cuts: DOGE slashed FEMA’s workforce by about 20% and froze parts of its funding.
• Disaster Aid Shift: Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA and shift disaster response responsibilities to individual states, arguing governors should handle emergencies independently.
• Climate Risk Data Degradation: DOGE reportedly dismantled or degraded federal resources that track and model climate-augmented weather risks, such as flood forecasting and early warning systems.
• Infrastructure Investment Delays: Federal support for flood prevention projects—like levees and drainage upgrades—was reduced or delayed, leaving vulnerable areas more exposed.

Could Earlier Warnings Have Been Possible?


While local agencies like the Harris County Flood Control District did issue warnings, the broader federal infrastructure that supports early detection, modeling, and communication of extreme weather risks may have been weakened. This could have:

• Reduced the lead time for warnings
• Limited the accuracy of flood forecasts
• Slowed coordination between federal and local responders

So while it's speculative to say definitively that lives would have been saved, the evidence strongly suggests that federal cuts and policy shifts under DOGE and Trump made Texas—and its residents—more vulnerable to disasters like this one.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

go.skimresources.com

The warnings were well within NWS guidelines, liar.

How does it feel to shit on dead kids still stuck in the river to satisfy your terminal TDS?

You are a truly disgusting POS BULLDOG

 

[HikerGuy83]

doge cut the department of education, so it is likely a child won't be taught math on the same level as before.

Oh no....

 

[HikerGuy83]

Those agencies capabilities were reduced. Can't just wish that part away.

You can't prove any connection.

You can't wish that part to be true.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Doge taking a chain saw to our weather monitoring and warning systems and to FEMA has made the tragedy of the Texas flood even worse than it had to be. Those agencies were in place for a reason, and should have never been degraded by someone who didn't even understand why we need those agencies.


Yes, it's quite possible that victims of the recent Texas flood could have received earlier or more effective warnings if not for cuts and policy shifts tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and former President Donald Trump's administration.


What Happened in Texas?


On July 4, 2025, catastrophic flash flooding struck areas along the Guadalupe River, leading to fatalities and widespread emergency rescues. Local authorities issued urgent warnings, but the scale and speed of the flooding overwhelmed many systems.


How DOGE and Trump’s Policies May Have Affected This


According to investigative reporting from the Texas Observer and San Antonio Current, the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative significantly impacted federal disaster preparedness and response:

• FEMA Cuts: DOGE slashed FEMA’s workforce by about 20% and froze parts of its funding.
• Disaster Aid Shift: Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA and shift disaster response responsibilities to individual states, arguing governors should handle emergencies independently.
• Climate Risk Data Degradation: DOGE reportedly dismantled or degraded federal resources that track and model climate-augmented weather risks, such as flood forecasting and early warning systems.
• Infrastructure Investment Delays: Federal support for flood prevention projects—like levees and drainage upgrades—was reduced or delayed, leaving vulnerable areas more exposed.

Could Earlier Warnings Have Been Possible?


While local agencies like the Harris County Flood Control District did issue warnings, the broader federal infrastructure that supports early detection, modeling, and communication of extreme weather risks may have been weakened. This could have:

• Reduced the lead time for warnings
• Limited the accuracy of flood forecasts
• Slowed coordination between federal and local responders

So while it's speculative to say definitively that lives would have been saved, the evidence strongly suggests that federal cuts and policy shifts under DOGE and Trump made Texas—and its residents—more vulnerable to disasters like this one.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

go.skimresources.com

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[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Not sure what any f that might do with needing an accurate weather forecasting agency.

Liberals have lost their mind. It just keeps getting worse with them. Now Trump is being blamed for a flash flood where people know these things happen consistently and advanced warnings were issued.

The most incredible thing is that liberals are not embarrassed by this level of insanity. They view this as a badge of honor.

These are the same useful idiots that believed Bush didn’t warn New Orleans about Katrina because he hates black people even though theres several videos of him telling them to evacuate.

 

[Dirk the Daring]

These are the same useful idiots that believed Bush didn’t warn New Orleans about Katrina because he hates black people even though theres several videos of him telling them to evacuate.

People forget that Katrina was not a direct hit on New Orleans. Even the New York Times labeled Katrina as 'NOT a natural disaster.'

Why Hurricane Katrina Was Not a Natural Disaster

Fifteen years ago, New Orleans was nearly destroyed. A new book suggests that the cause was decades of bad policy—and that nothing has changed.

www.newyorker.com

https://www.weather.gov/images/mob/events/katrina/track.png

 

[tahuyaman]

So where was all your concern when these happened?


East Palestine
East Coast response Hurricane Helene
LA Fires
Hawaii

How the Government Is Failing Americans Uprooted by Calamity​

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/climate/climate-disaster-relief-fema.html

FEMA failed to answer nearly half of the calls for assistance, aid it received during Hurricanes Helen and Milton: report

The Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to answer nearly half of the calls for aid and assistance it recently received during Hurricanes Helene and Milton, a report released this week shows.

nypost.com

“While American citizens from Hawaii to North Carolina suffered, Biden and Mayorkas used FEMA as a piggy bank, spending hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars to housing illegal aliens, including at the Roosevelt Hotel that served as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to shelter Laken Riley’s killer.”

DHS Condemns Biden Administration Failures in the Wake of the Lahaina, Hawaii Fires | Homeland Security

A new report about the aftermath of the August 2023 Lahaina, Hawaii, fires reveals FEMA’s horrific neglect and mismanagement under the Biden Administration.

www.dhs.gov

Comparing Biden-Harris bungled Helene response to past disasters - Texas Public Policy Foundation

Media attacked Bush over Katrina, but ignores Biden-Harris failures as Americans suffer. For five days, the U.S. Army’s helicopters stayed on the ground. The Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene has been slow, weak, and deadly—but, except for Fox News, you wouldn’t know it...

www.texaspolicy.com

That’s all different. We had a Democrat president then.

 

[Nostra]

Bullshit thread based on lies.

OP just wanted to shit on dead kids.

 

[BULLDOG]

DOGE and FEMA had nothing to do with the scope of this once in a century disaster. You should be em stressed for exposing yourself as an extreme partisan hack.

Once in a century? I was there when one just as bad happened in 87, and I don't think that was the last one before now. Just found info on similar floods near the same area of the Guadeloupe in 1978, 1987, 2002, and 2025. That's 4 in less than 50 years. Not sure how many before that.

 

[Old Rocks]

So based on this logic, would communism prevent injuries from all natural disasters?

What a dumb **** reply. Just how do you equate the Weather Service with communism? You rightwingnut imbeciles are totally living in another universe.

 

[Old Rocks]

I doubt those 600 out of a work force of 4,000 were really "key roles." More likely they were low-production employees who sat at their desks and posted hateful anti-Trump screed on social media all day.

Good riddance.

So you didn't read the article, just replied as your ass licking GOP bias told you to. Yes, there were key staff positions that were vacant, and the warning simply did not go out in time, or in the proper manner.

 

[Old Rocks]

I saw a crawl in CNN's screen during their State of the Union broadcast where they finally acknowledged the many NWS warnings given but are now they are blaming Texan's "Alert Warning Fatigue" for ignoring them.

While there may be some truth in that they just don't give up do they?

I saw where there were many key staff positions vacant, including the person that would coordinate the local warnings at the Weather Service. Thank you DOGE, Trump, and Musk for the deaths of all those children. I hope y'all roast in hell.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Those agencies capabilities were reduced. Can't just wish that part away.

No, they were not. The weather station was fully staffed and FEMA does not speculate, they show up to offer relief in areas impacted, not prior to the impact...