They can never take responsibility for their own actions, so all they’ve got are lies and deflection. You want to gut the National Weather Service, you own this.
As we discussed here, they were still counting the dead and looking for missing children after flash flooding in Texas over the holiday weekend, and those DOGE cuts to the National Weather Service may have been greatly responsible for not accurately predicting the severity of the torrential rains that hit Kerr County in central Texas.
That didn’t stop Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from trying to pass the buck and pretend that any of them care one iota about how many people they kill during a press conference this Saturday:
While speaking at a press conference alongside Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Saturday, Noem was asked by a reporter about whether the fact that he and many others did not receive warnings from the National Weather Service until 7 a.m. was a “fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep people safe.” Noem argued that the technology was “ancient” and that the Trump administration is working to upgrade it.
