Cruz, Cornyn voted to slash weather forecast funding ahead of Texas floods
President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and Sen. John Cornyn arrived in San Antonio on Friday to visit Kerrville following devastating floods over the Fourth of July weekend. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
Days before a flash flood surged through Central Texas, killing over 130 people, Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn voted to cut funding for weather forecast research, with Cruz authoring the language behind the cuts.
The flood, which devastated Kerr County on July 4, has left Texans trying to make sense of how this tragedy occurred, and if it could have been prevented.
While there’s been no shortage of finger-pointing and debate around who’s at fault for forecasters’ failure to accurately predict the intensity of the rain and local and federal officials’ slow responses to the flood, Cruz in particular has been under the microscope.
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