🌊Commerce Department cuts at NOAA kill 100 in Texas floods
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Over 100 people died in Texas flash floods after National Weather Service forecast failures that state officials blame on Trump administration cuts that fired 880+ NOAA employees including experienced meteorologists. All five living former NWS directors had warned these cuts would cause "needless loss of life," but Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed their expertise, claiming technology would replace human forecasters.
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Why This Matters
☠️ Preventable deaths in your community from political cuts:
Budget cuts to weather forecasting directly caused forecast failures that killed over 100 people including children—showing how policy decisions translate into body counts
🌪️ Your family loses early warning systems:
Reduced weather service staffing means storm warnings arrive too late for families to evacuate, turning routine severe weather into deadly disasters
💰 Tax cuts for wealthy cost lives of working families:
The $200 million cut from NOAA helped fund $3 trillion in tax reductions for corporations and high earners, meaning your safety subsidizes their wealth
📡 Climate denial kills through defunded science:
Eliminating weather monitoring is part of broader attack on climate research, meaning communities lose protection from extreme weather while fossil fuel companies avoid accountability
⚖️ Local communities pay for federal negligence:
When federal weather services fail, local emergency responders and hospitals absorb the human and financial costs while politicians escape responsibility
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Which constitutional power allows Congress to influence NOAA staffing levels?
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