DOGE Cuts To NOAA Might Have Led To The Devastating Flooding Deaths In Texas

As everyone knows, below the present Trump administration, the “Division of Authorities Effectivity” (DOGE) — led by Elon Musk for many of its life, together with throughout the related interval we’re going to spotlight right here — made cuts to quite a few actual authorities companies. That included the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To make it clear that we’re not simply making issues up after the tragedy that’s the focus of this text, Jennifer Sensiba warned a couple of instances of great danger in instances of emergencies that might come from the cuts DOGE made to NOAA, together with 8 months in the past. Extra lately, one month in the past, Cynthia Shahan (my mother) warned of this.

Nicely, within the face of the tragic deaths of quite a few women in a Christian camp in Texas, some individuals have related the dots and contended that delayed flooding alerts from an understaffed NOAA may have contributed right here to the unlucky deaths of those women.

The tweet above was despatched out to me as a notification this morning. Scrolling by the responses, I noticed defenders of Elon Musk’s/Donald Trump’s actions claiming that you may’t attribute causation on this case. Ah, sure, the outdated technique to obfuscate the apparent. Some individuals additionally claimed this Grok response was faux, however then I ran throughout somebody asking Grok once more in a barely completely different manner, and I screenshotted Grok’s response.

Naturally, there hasn’t been a scientific examine performed to statistically or in any other case affirm {that a} lower to NOAA led to deaths, however if you lower workers so considerably, when individuals particularly predicted this type of factor would occur if workers was lower like this (for clear and apparent causes), and when individuals reported inadequate alerts, nicely, you’re sticking your head within the sand should you refuse to consider there was at the least probably a connection.

Roughly 20 women died from this flooding.

I already wrote beforehand about how the DOGE cuts would clearly price the US greater than it saved us financially. Simply purely cash issues, that’s clear and apparent. In different phrases, the entire level of DOGE — at the least, it’s purported goal — isn’t even being achieved, whereas the US and the world are dropping quite a few vital providers and applications. By way of lack of life, economists must attempt to put a worth on that. There are numerous estimates with numerous justifications. Evidently, although, a human life is just not deemed to be price $10. Right here’s a Wikipedia web page on the subject. It could really feel heartless to place a greenback worth on these misplaced women’ lives, however doing so would once more present that reducing authorities providers is just not a one-way road. You don’t simply get monetary savings by reducing the workforce at NOAA and different authorities companies. There are additionally issues that you just lose. There are causes these individuals had been in these jobs within the first place. It’s not like reducing your spending on ice cream and junk meals. These had been actual people dedicated to doing helpful authorities work for the betterment of society. It appears that evidently, one way or the other, by many years of Republicans attacking authorities as evil — and nearly all authorities companies as ineffective, inept, if not dangerous organizations — People have come to underestimate what the federal authorities does for us all.

Returning to “Trump Tracker’s” tweet, sure, plainly blood is on the fingers of MAGA voters.