Maybe shutting down our weather satellites NOAA, and climate science was a bad idea
“Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.”
Not to mention eviscerating FEMA:
DOGE already cut roughly 20 percent of FEMA’s staff and moved to freeze its funds. And Donald Trump has repeatedly signaled his interest in shifting disaster relief responsibilities entirely to the states. On June 11, he made that threat more concrete by saying that his administration would start phasing out FEMA after this current hurricane season ends in November. “We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level,” Trump said. “A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”
The whole point of FEMA, of course, was to assist states when the scale of the disaster exceeded state capabilities. Texas may be hitting the Find Out phase.