Doge reduced warning and response time for the Texas flood.

[Delldude]

If he goes he'll toss out Bounty to the afflicted than abandon them like the bastard did to Puerto Rico.

No chance He was concerned about our tax dollars disappearing into the bowels of corrupt PR government officials?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

There are people whose timing is just awful.
"Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting."

MSN

There were plentiful warnings about the dangers of cutting an already understaffed Weather Service. So now it takes over 100 dead Americans to demonstrate that those warnings were not baseless. That area does not need thoughts and prayers, it needs a river monitoring and warning system.

Aren’t they all on vacation now?

 

[Nostra]

Numbnuts Trump said he may go to Texas end of this week. That is, if it rains in Jersey & his golf plans are a washout.

If he goes he'll toss out Bounty to the afflicted than abandon them like the bastard did to Puerto Rico.

Cool.

 

[Hector12]

Who thought it was a good idea for the richest man in the world to decide which government spending programs are not necessary? I never did.

 

[Delldude]

Who thought it was a good idea for the richest man in the world to decide which government spending programs are not necessary? I never did.

He didn't.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Nobody said they could prevent it. They were understaffed, which always causes delays.

Still lying, are we? Willfully ignoring facts and information to the contrary.

Give up, you lose.

 

[eagle1462010]

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

You are a low life to push a political narritive on the deaths of this flood.

 

[Nostra]

A message for the POS scumbag OP BULLDOG

 

[Picaro]

Delldud just confirmed that Trump killed those girls.

Ah, another low life piece of shit weighs in; it's a compulsion with these sociopath scum.

 

[MagicMike]

Ah, another low life piece of shit weighs in; it's a compulsion with these sociopath scum.

Fick off ya cultist piker!

 

[petro]

Ah, another low life piece of shit weighs in; it's a compulsion with these sociopath scum.

They don't even realize they help Trump by being so disgusting and toxic, they are rejected by normal people.

 

[Picaro]

Fick off ya cultist piker!

Crawl back into that rat turd that spawned you and your fellow maggots, gimp.

 

[Dirk the Daring]

Fick off ya cultist piker!

Ok, I'm definitely stealing that...

 

[HikerGuy83]

Fick off ya cultist piker!

^^^ Triggered ^^^

 

[BULLDOG]

LMAO, so Trump is responsible for requests for federal funding under Obama and Biden, eh. I think that justifies cuts to an incompetent department. BTW, all that means nothing when alarms were sounded to the area 12 hours, 3 hours and one hour prior to the flood. Democrat misdirected hysteria fails again.

The request was made in 2018.

 

[BULLDOG]

A message for the POS scumbag OP BULLDOG

and she has never twisted reality to match trump's orders

 

[Nostra]

and she has never twisted reality to match trump's orders

She nailed it. You are scum.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Are we still posting about the huge lie of an OP in this thread?

Is someone still defending it as anything else but a blatant attempt to politicize the deaths of people for a perverted cause?

 

[Dirk the Daring]

Are we still posting about the huge lie of an OP in this thread?

Is someone still defending it as anything else but a blatant attempt to politicize the deaths of people for a perverted cause?

It's literally the only lens through which they are capable of seeing the world. Trump must be stopped, no matter how insane their argument is.

 

[theHawk]

I just saw Ted Cruz's emotional performance during a press conference. It was very cringeworthy. He'll never be nominated for a Grammy.

Meanwhile radical leftwing trans terrorists are attacking police and ICE, but the lefties are all worried about weather forecasters.