Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Find Out podcast, episode 23.

Hope you all had a great long weekend um

unfortunately we had some bad news over the weekend uh obviously an awful situation unfolding in

texas where i think it was like 10 inches of rain fell in a couple hours or 20 inches or something

uh the loss of life is catastrophic.

That's 80 at this point.

That number is expected to go up.

And we weren't planning on talking about this, but since it's such big news, I think we're

going to have to dive into it for a few minutes.

Obviously, there have been lots of back and forth about the federal government's

involvement or lack thereof.

A lot of questions coming

not just from the left, but also from local Texas officials on the ground, critiquing

the National Weather Service and not getting accurate data on what was happening. So we're

going to talk about this briefly and then we're going to go into the media conversation, which is more around democratic messaging and how we fix it.

But let's dive into this first, guys. So the Trump administration is furiously pushing back

on the notion that the doge cuts, and we have to be very clear. We're talking about doge cuts here,

not cuts from the big bullshit bill because that just got signed.

So that's not really on the table.

But the doge cuts, there have been articles about the National Weather Service reeling from people

taking early retirements, which tend to be the most experienced people.

So what do we think?

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