How Political Cuts Turned Texas Floods Deadly | Enemies List

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Lincoln Square

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.9 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In today's Enemies List we cover how Trump-era cuts under DOGE slashed nearly 600 National Weather Service jobs, leaving Texas forecasting offices understaffed ahead of this weekend’s deadly floods, which claimed dozens of lives. Rick breaks down the political fallout and what this weekend reveals about the risks of cutting vital public safety resources. All that and more on this week's Enemies List... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.8	Today's enemy's list is a grim one, and the enemy on the list is an unsurprising one.
0:51.3	It's the Trump administration, and it's Doge.
0:53.1	But the effects that led us here
0:54.8	to this recording today on Sunday is simple. Right now in Texas, about 60 people that we know of so
1:01.2	far are dead. 47 young girls from a summer camp are missing. Texas was hit yesterday by
1:06.7	unbelievable storms. And the National Weather Service offices in Texas are understaffed and under
1:11.8	man. They've had, they've been facing the effects of the riffs and the cuts and the early
1:15.6	buyout offers driven by Doge and the Trump administration. So they didn't have people on the
1:19.2	ground to do the forecasting. Their budgets have been slashed. Their headcounts have been
1:23.1	slashed in these local and regional weather service offices. You proud of yourself?
1:28.6	Elon.
1:30.3	How about you, Donald?
1:31.1	You proud of yourself?
1:33.6	How about all you Republican congressmen who sat there lapping up the doge bullshit like it was a milkshake?
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