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White House's Karoline Leavitt says President Donald Trump will be visiting devastating flooding areas in Texas.
President Donald Trump is expected to visit Central Texas this week. Local officials and forecasters have defended their actions before and after flash floods killed dozens in the region.
The White House pushed back Monday against claims that the DOGE cuts to the National Weather Service played a role in the deadly floods that swept through Texas Hill Country. President Donald Trump and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency presided over deep cuts to the NWS,
President Donald Trump met with victims' families and surveyed the damage of catastrophic floods that struck the state one week ago.
That was an act of God. It’s not the administration’s fault that the flood hit when it did, but there were early and consistent warnings and, again, the National Weather Service did its job,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Were lives unnecessarily lost because of incompetence or policy decisions or dysfunction? It is not partisan politics to ask those questions.
The White House is defending the National Weather Service and accusing some Democrats of playing politics in the wake of devastating floods in Texas.