Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.

DHS blasted CNN’s Texas flood story as false—but their statement confirms FEMA waited 72 hours for Noem’s approval before deploying key rescue resources. The post DHS’s Fiery Rebuttal to CNN on FEMA Response to Texas Floods Ends Up Validating CNN’s 72‑Hour Timeline first appeared on Mediaite.

Dispatch audio has surfaced from the critical hours before a deadly flood hit its height in Kerr County, helping piece together the timeframe local officials have yet to provide amid public

A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.

In this particular case, we have seen absolutely nothing to suggest that current staffing or budget issues within NOAA and the NWS played any role at all in this event,” Houston-based

Public officials in the area have come under repeated criticism amid questions about the timeline of what happened and why widespread warnings were

Over 100 people have died after heavy rain pounded Kerr County, Texas, early Friday, leading to "catastrophic" flooding, the sheriff said.

Amid catastrophic flash floods in central Texas over the 2025 Fourth of July holiday weekend, a rumor spread online that one of the state's U.S. senators, Ted Cruz, continued to sightsee while on vacation in Greece the day after disaster struck his constituents.