Whenever a natural disaster occurs while a Republican is president, corporate media concern trolling soon follows. So it was with the horrific flooding in Texas over the 4th of July weekend; as soon as the news reached the newsrooms, the talking heads and teleprompter pilots rushed to google to determine which Trump-era executive action they could most convincingly blame for the tragedy.

First, some context: 
The National Weather Service (NWS) has stated publicly that its offices in both Austin and San Antonio had “adequate staffing and resources” to issue warnings to affected Texas residents. On Thursday afternoon, July 3, they issued a flood watch, which was followed by a second rain warning an hour later. Shortly after midnight, in the early morning hours of July 4, the NWS issued a flash flood warning to 30,000 people.

All of that is to say, no federal- or state-level NWS official has indicated in any way that they were short funds, short-staffed, or short anything else they might need to adequately warn Texas residents of a potential flash flood.  But of course, this didn’t stop the corporate media from trying to blame the disaster on the Trump administration’s budget cuts. 

Surprisingly, though, most of them actually recalibrated their reporting on the flash flood after the NWS made the above information public. Only CNN, whose anchors and reporters alike had been gleefully pointing fingers from the outset, remained steadfast in its assertions that, no, Trump and DOGE actually were (probably) somehow still at fault:

Facts first, as always.