DOGE Cuts To NOAA Might Have Led To The Devastating Flooding Deaths In Texas

As everyone knows, beneath the present Trump administration, the “Division of Authorities Effectivity” (DOGE) — led by Elon Musk for many of its life, together with in the course of the related interval we’re going to spotlight right here — made cuts to quite a few actual authorities companies. That included the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To make it clear that we’re not simply making issues up after the tragedy that’s the focus of this text, Jennifer Sensiba warned just a few instances of serious danger in instances of emergencies that will come from the cuts DOGE made to NOAA, together with 8 months in the past. Extra not too long ago, one month in the past, Cynthia Shahan (my mother) warned of this.

Effectively, within the face of the tragic deaths of quite a few women in a Christian camp in Texas, some individuals have related the dots and contended that delayed flooding alerts from an understaffed NOAA might have contributed right here to the unlucky deaths of those women.

The tweet above was despatched out to me as a notification this morning. Scrolling by way of the responses, I noticed defenders of Elon Musk’s/Donald Trump’s actions claiming that you may’t attribute causation on this case. Ah, sure, the previous technique to obfuscate the apparent. Some individuals additionally claimed this Grok response was pretend, however then I ran throughout somebody asking Grok once more in a barely totally different method, and I screenshotted Grok’s response.

Naturally, there hasn’t been a scientific examine achieved to statistically or in any other case affirm {that a} lower to NOAA led to deaths, however once you lower workers so considerably, when individuals particularly predicted this type of factor would occur if workers was lower like this (for clear and apparent causes), and when individuals reported inadequate alerts, effectively, you’re sticking your head within the sand in the event you refuse to imagine there was not less than probably a connection.

Roughly 20 women died from this flooding.

I already wrote beforehand about how the DOGE cuts would clearly price the US greater than it saved us financially. Simply purely cash issues, that’s clear and apparent. In different phrases, the entire level of DOGE — not less than, it’s purported goal — isn’t even being achieved, whereas the US and the world are shedding quite a few essential companies and applications. By way of lack of life, economists must attempt to put a worth on that. There are numerous estimates with numerous justifications. Evidently, although, a human life shouldn’t be deemed to be value $10. Right here’s a Wikipedia web page on the subject. It might really feel heartless to place a greenback worth on these misplaced women’ lives, however doing so would once more present that slicing authorities companies shouldn’t be a one-way road. You don’t simply get monetary savings by slicing the workforce at NOAA and different authorities companies. There are additionally issues that you just lose. There are causes these individuals had been in these jobs within the first place. It’s not like slicing your spending on ice cream and junk meals. These had been actual people dedicated to doing helpful authorities work for the betterment of society. Evidently, in some way, by way of a long time of Republicans attacking authorities as evil — and virtually all authorities companies as ineffective, inept, if not dangerous organizations — Individuals have come to underestimate what the federal authorities does for us all.

Returning to “Trump Tracker’s” tweet, sure, evidently blood is on the fingers of MAGA voters.