After the catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas on July 4, 2025, users online claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was ultimately to blame for the flood's 100 deaths due to staffing cuts at the National Weather Service.

Search crews continued the grueling task of recovering the missing as more potential flash flooding threatened Texas Hill Country.

NWS says Flash Flood Warnings were issued on July 3 and early July 4 in Central Texas, giving more than three hours of warning.

Key positions at National Weather Service offices across Texas are vacant, sowing doubt over the state’s ability to respond to natural disasters as rescuers comb through the flood-ravaged Hill Country.

Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.

The White House is defending the National Weather Service and accusing some Democrats of playing politics in the wake of devastating floods in Texas.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut hundreds of jobs as the National Weather Service earlier this year.

"A lot of the weather forecast offices now are not operating at full complement of staff," said the former lead of NOAA.

Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said

What were the National Weather Service forecasts? Why is it so hard to know where rain will fall? Did staff reductions at the weather service and other budget cuts by the Trump administration contribute to the catastrophe?