Swalwell: We Need to Probe if Trump’s
National Weather Service Cuts Impacted
TX Flood Warnings
Posted By: ladydawgfan, 7/8/2025 7:00:00 PM
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central” that Congress has a “responsibility” to look into whether the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service affected the amount of deviation of the deadly central Texas floods. Co-host Kate Bolduan said, “To is these deadly floods in Texas as these the search continues for the missing there are big questions being raised about the warnings that happened and the impacts also of cuts to — that the Trump administration had made to the National Weather Service.”
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Swalwell: We Need to Probe if Trump’s
National Weather Service Cuts Impacted
TX Flood Warnings 32 replies
National Weather Service Cuts Impacted
TX Flood Warnings 32 replies
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Nice try, Phartwell, but those cuts are not critical personel and don't even take effect until OCTOBER, after the end of Hurricane season.