DOGE Came for NOAA. Death Came to Texas
Dozens may have died in a flood because of a forecasting failure. Exactly as predicted.
We were warned that this could happen.
Five months to the day before at least 52 people — 15 of them children — perished in horrific Texas flooding they could not have seen coming, Government Executive, a respected Washington publication covering federal affairs, reported this:
“DOGE has requested and been granted access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s IT systems and is already making personnel changes, multiple sources briefed on that matter have confirmed, raising concerns the new, Elon Musk-led team could interfere with scientific processes.” (Emphasis added)
No Trump official rushing to the airwaves today can erase those words — or the warning they carried. They’ll point fingers at anyone but Donald Trump and his budget cutters — NOAA, the last president, the media, anyone else.
But the facts are the facts. And the starkest of them all is this:
Just two months ago, on May 6, five past weather chiefs — whose service spanned seven presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan and including Trump’s first term — came together in a moment of historic unity. They issued a dark and dire prophecy about what might result from Trump’s recent decimation of the NOAA.
They called it, simply, this:
“An open letter to the American people from all former National Weather Service directors.”
Their words were chilling. Now they are haunting.