Has the US government contributed to the Texas tragedy?

After the fatal Texas floods, some Democrats warned the “results of the” results of the federal government labor, including the federal government workforce, and Senator Chris Murphy “helps the exact weather forecast to prevent fatal disasters.”

The proposal is that the incisions allow the National Weather Service (NWS) – the government agency that provides air forecasts in the United States – floods and alarms.

However, the White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said on Monday: “These offices (NWS) worked well … Therefore, any claim is completely false.”

BBC Verulment examined the impact of cuts to the President Trump in this area, and although the workforce in NWS, the specialists we spoke, the employees of the Texas floods were adequate.

Trump management Offered 25% incision The current annual budget of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is $ 6.1 billion (4.4BN pound). NOAA is an agency that controls NWS.

This would be 2026 comes into effect in fiscal year It will begin in October this year – therefore these special cuts would not contribute to the Texas tragedy.

However, NWS’s levels have already been reduced by the driver of the Trump Administration’s efficiency since January.

Earlier, the government’s efficiency (DOGE) department managed by ELON MAKI (DOGE) offered an early retirement for voluntary discounts, as well as federal government officials. These are the contracts of the most tried.

As a result, about 200 people were voluntarily raised in NWS, and received 300 early pensions, the legislative director of the National Weather Service Employee Negotiator said that the next 100 people were fired from the service.

In total, NWS lost 600 of about 4,200 staff, Mr. Fahy, said that several offices in the country have caused the necessary personnel.

In April Associated Press News Agency Data prepared by NWS showed 20% percent of their offices, said the information that has increased twice a decade ago.

However, climate experts told the BBC that NWS forecasts and flood warnings were expected in Texas last week, as expected.

“Predictions and warnings were all in a normal manner. It is very difficult to predict this type of this event, this type of extreme, localized rain,” said Civil and Environmental Engineering in Texas.

In February, I do not think that I think I think the hurricane, “I think I think it directly to this event.”

However, some experts suggest that the staff of personnel capital could interfere with local NWS offices in Texas.

“There is a real question about whether the weather data is in a sub-optimal occurrence,” Daniel Swain, the University of Los Angeles in the University of California Daniel Shein.

“Some people in the air service in charge of these communication are still responsible for not in these local offices, it may be effective – they were not in local offices.”

There were some available vacancies, San Angelo and San Antonio offices, which cover the areas affected by the flood.

For example, San Antonio Office website has several positions as the rest of theincluding two meteorologists.

The legal director of the NWS Association told the BBC that a scientist, a major hydrologist, a large hydrologist, which has been missing in the floods of San Angelo.

The San Antonio office also had a “warning coordinator coordinator”, which coordinates the ties between local forecast office and urgent management services in Civilistan.

However, he noted that both offices have temporarily temporarily temporarily expected their employees in this situation.

“The NWS weather forecasts, Texas, catastrophic floods in San Antonio and San Angelo,” said NWS spokesman Erica’s statement “All forecasts and warnings were given in a timely manner.”

The NWS meteorologist Jason Runyen, which covers the territory of San Antonio, in a statement that the office usually served during the clear air, “he was up to five in the squad.”

On Sunday, government cuts were separated from the Key vacancies in NWS, President Trump said to journalists: “No, they did not.”

On your video shared thousands of times on social mediaThe US meteorologist John Morales said: “20% decrease in air balloons has started … What we started to see is to become a violation of the quality of forecasts.”

Some social media users have proved that the words of Mr. Morales have limited predictions of budget losses, as a floods of Texas in Kerr County in Kerr Count.

Air balloons are an important tool used to use meteorologists from temperature, moisture, pressure, pressure or wind speed – from the upper atmosphere.

In the United States, NWS stations will usually launch them twice a day.

In a number of public disclosures broadcast in February, NWS or local weather forecast confirmed that the country has suspended or reduced the area of ​​the country, which belongs to the absence of personnel.

However, there is no evidence that the areas affected by floods in Texas have a direct impact on the air balloon.

The data available indicates thatTo the floods, the floods, in the beginning of the launch station, which is planned in DEL RIO, which is planned in DEL RIO, which is closest to the flood epicenter, gather information that gave information that the experts say.

Additional research by Kumar Malhotra