As our own Amy Curtis reported earlier, CNN senior national security analyst Juliette Kayyem seemed to blame at least some of the deaths from flash flooding in Texas on DOGE cuts to weather services and struck out at MAGA and right-wingers who ignored the “chorus of us experts” who discussed the impact of cuts to weather forecasting.
Some noted that the cuts don’t take place until October. Others, like CBS Austin’s meteorologist, noted:
All I’ll say is this. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for Kerr County more than 12 hours ahead of the catastrophic flood. A flash flood warning was issued for Hunt & Ingram 3 HOURS before the Guadalupe started to climb.
They did their job and they did it well
— Avery Tomasco (@averytomascowx) July 5, 2025
It was a flash flood in the middle of the night while people were asleep. But blame DOGE for the deaths of young campers.
Rachel Bitecofer was a bit more straightforward in playing the blame game, saying that the flood that devastated Camp Mystic was a result of Republicans’ “small government” lunacy:
Republican’s “small government” lunacy got these poor kids killed.
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