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Speaking to reporters on Air Force One Friday, Trump called the catastrophe “shocking” and “terrible.”
>the truth is that it is not shocking, it was predicted and warned to happen
“They don’t know the answer yet as to how many people, but it looks like some young people have died,” he said.

>In May, all five living directors of the NWS issued a letter warning that Trump’s cuts “leave the nation’s official weather forecasting entity at a significant deficit ... just as we head into the busiest time for severe storm predictions like tornadoes and hurricanes,” the directors wrote.

“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”
>there will be needless loss of life
The Times reported in June that, just months after the Trump administration had forced out hundreds of staffers, the National Weather Service was granted a waiver to the administration’s government-wide hiring freeze.

A spokesperson told the Times that the 126 staff it planned to add—about a fifth of the number cut—were intended to “stabilize” the agency.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-officials-slam-donald-trumps-national-weather-service-for-bad-forecast/