Guess who voted to cut NOAA funds a few days before the big Texas flash flood, in an area known as Flash flood alley. If you said Ted Cruz you would be right.
Cruz pushed for cuts to weather forecasting mere days before his state was hit by a deadly flash flood.
www.salon.com
This fuckin' guy.
"Cruz amended President Donald Trump’s “
big, beautiful bill” to end a $150M fund that sought to “accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public.” The ultimate goal of the federally funded program was to create better forecasts with more lead time."
And then...
"“With any disaster, you see people playing politics and trying to finger-point at their political opponents. That’s not the time for this. The time for this is to come together and support each other,” Cruz said. “But we should also have a serious examination of what steps can be put in place in terms of early warning and being proactive.”
Why would we point the finger at the guy who literally amended the bill to end a program that had a goal of doing the thing he thinks we should examine doing?