Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding | Texas floods 2025 | The Guardian

"Ted Cruz has spent years doing big oil's bidding, gutting climate research, defunding Noaa, and weakening the very systems meant to warn and protect the public,' said Cassidy DiPaola, communications director of Fossil Free Media. 

"That's made disasters like this weekend's flood in Texas even more deadly. Now he's doubling down, pushing through even more cuts in the so-called big beautiful bill. Texans are dead and grieving, and Cruz is protecting big oil instead of the people he's supposed to represent. It's disgraceful." 

 Cruz, who has previously cast doubt over the scientific reality of the climate crisis, said that complaints about cuts to the National Weather Service are "partisan finger pointing", although he conceded that people should've been evacuated earlier...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/ted-cruz-trump-weather-forecasting-cuts 


 

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