Children Died in Texas Floods—Trump’s Cuts Made It Inevitable |

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Over 80 people—including children—lost their lives in the devastating Texas floods. But this tragedy wasn’t just about extreme weather—it was the direct result of MAGA policy. On this episode of democracyish LIVE, Waj and Danielle expose how Donald’s April cuts to the National Weather Service forced out key forecasters, just weeks before hurricane season. With over $100 billion redirected to his private military agenda, public safety systems like disaster response, Medicaid, and food aid are being gutted—and Americans are paying the price. This is no accident. It's a warning.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Democracy-ish.
0:08.7	I'm awake, and my name is Danielle Moody.
0:13.1	I'm alive, mostly, and my name is Wajah Ali with my chide because my cat decided to have a nervous breakdown last night
0:21.7	and kept me up till 7 a.m. So this is the face of a father who's exhausted who came back
0:27.0	because he took his kids jet skiing at our rich friends home over the weekend and should have
0:33.1	relaxed but didn't relax. And instead, I was going to call Danielle on July 4th, but then I gave her a break and called Kossom Rashid.
0:42.4	And you should have seen me like a nutty person walking around as everyone's having fun talking about the New York Times.
0:48.5	But we are here, folks, even though we're exhausted. And we're going to talk about how Republicans care more about protecting
0:54.9	a pedophile and their bottom line than actually Republicans who live in Texas. Because
1:01.5	a heartbreaking tragedy, I mean, there's so many crises. But, you know, Danielle and I were
1:06.8	talking about this. Yeah. For those who have seen a democracy-ish and been with us for the past couple years.
1:12.8	But we kept wondering out loud,
1:14.6	huh, if Elon Musk,
1:16.4	the world's richest man and Donald Trump,
1:19.0	who doesn't give an F about anything but himself,
1:21.3	through Doge,
1:23.1	cut the National Weather Service,
1:25.6	and cut N-O-A-A and cut FEMA.
1:30.2	Well, what will happen, especially in America, which is a huge country, and there are places like,
1:35.8	oh, I don't know, Florida and Texas that get floods and hurricanes, what will happen?
1:41.8	Oh, let's see.
1:42.6	When they cut FAA, we saw planes go down and we saw preventable
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