Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed 24 people.
NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the Trump administration in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy, losing approximately 600 staffers.
After the cuts, the agency—which was already understaffed—began to prepare to offer “degraded” forecasting services, facing “severe shortages” of meteorologists, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times in April.
They don’t care. They had a press conference where they spent the whole beginning jerking off trump and cracking jokes. They gutted funding to act like they care about spending and now they’ll just congratulate each other while 32 are dead and more are missing.