The death toll from the Texas floods has continued to rise.
All Americans should be grief-stricken and outraged.
News reports show that cuts to NOAA, FEMA staff cuts and absences, decades-old failures in local spending for safety measures like alarm systems and even local refusal to deploy fire staff turned a severe natural disaster into a much larger tragedy than it would have been if forecasting activity, communications, and warning systems were in place.
Congress needs to investigate; do oversight; take testimony. And restore full funding for NOAA and FEMA.
Think of all those parents who will never see their children again.
Can you honor their unspeakable loss by:
Holding hearings and invest where the failures occurred?
By doing your utmost to prevent future preventable deaths in extreme weather events by funding NOAA and FEMA?
By taking the climate emergency seriously and curtailing global warming by limiting fossil fuel emissions?
We did not elect our public officials to be priests and pastors. We elect you to carry out the duties given to you by the constitution to look after lives, safety, the rule of law.
Texas failed and the Trump cuts caused deaths. Deaths in Texas, just as they are causing deaths across the globe.
I am outraged that the federal government is funding and boasting about building concentration camps even while it shows contempt for the essential measures needed for flood and storm safety. Find your human decency, or your shame if you have any. Is it too much to ask you to do your job in the wake of a tragedy the Trump cuts worsened?
First sent on July 9 by Mary
