We need to make sure the people responsible for these deaths don't slither out of accountability.

I want to show you all this clip of Donald Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security,

Christy Noem, being pressed in Texas regarding the dozens of confirmed deaths that resulted from the catastrophic flooding.

Now, the flooding itself wasn't preventable, but we had infrastructure in

place, like professional meteorologists and forecast offices that could coordinate to warn people

and save lives, but Trump gutted that. Trump, Elon Musk, the people in his administration,

recklessly gutted that, gloated about it, and they're now being silent.

Trump forced Christy Knoem, you know, his Secretary of Homeland Security to go out and do a press

conference in Texas.

And let me tell you, she is struggling to answer questions in any coherent way, because as

she's giving this press conference, literally moments ago in Kerrville, Texas, we learn that

more and more confirmed deaths are being counted. Right now, at least 32 dead in central Texas

in devastating flash floods. And this is absolutely tragic. I don't want to be immediately

talking about politics, but this is inherently a political catastrophe because it was

entirely preventable. In the middle of storm season, a lot of, a lot of professionals began to

warn about this exact thing. Read this. Quote, our worst nightmare is that weather forecast

offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life, wrote five

former NWS directors from both the Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter

on May 2nd. It was two months back. In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant. That is in

Houston, Texas. This article excerpt reads Fort Worth.

With hurricane season underway and an above normal activity forecast, some National Weather Service

offices like Houston, where as many as 44% of positions are vacant, are operating with staff

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