“Endless viral posts are blaming DOGE and broader federal budget cuts for the failure to forewarn people who lost their lives. Online sleuths last night were sharing this April 2025 article from local media about the region’s NWS ‘warning coordination meteorologist,’ who took one of those early retirement packages offered by the federal government. ‘The importance of experience in the WCM role cannot be understated,’ the article bemoaned at the time. ‘Ensuring ample and timely warning to the Central Texas counties… is among the chief responsibilities’… And let’s be clear: Just as my Playbook colleague Zack Stanton set out in yesterday’s newsletter, there’s still absolutely no evidence that Trump’s NWS cuts had any impact on what happened in Texas on Friday morning. As you’d expect, local and national reporters alike have been digging away at this angle incredibly hard and so far, the picture that’s emerging is one of a National Weather Service that did its job as a catastrophic weather event unfolded,” writes Politico Playbook on July 7, 2025, all emphasis theirs.

“TRUMP is heading to Valdosta, Georgia, this afternoon to be briefed on the damage. During a campaign rally in Pennsylvania yesterday, he said President JOE BIDEN – who spent the weekend in Delaware – was ‘sleeping’ on the beach instead of leading the recovery effort and blasted KAMALA HARRIS for fundraising in California and Nevada when she ‘ought to be down in the area,'” they wrote on September 30, 2024, approximately three days after that similarly devastating flood.

Interesting, right? It’s like their pushback on false narratives and the full picture is kind of situational, like they’ll put in the extra effort and emphasis depending on who the president is.