By Hiroko Tabuchi Stephan Schwartz
Hiroko Tabuchi and Mira Rojanasakul, Reporters – The New York Times
Stephan: Because aspiring dictator Trump has never been anywhere close to the smartest guy in the room, and because he appoints only submissive loyalists who are corrupt and also not competent, everyone in America is in much greater danger than they were six months ago. Pick a topic: Healthcare, devastated. Science research, castrated. Meteorology, gutted, as this article describes in detail. I don’t know how we are going to get through this if the Democrats do not take control of both house of Congress.
In recent days, flash floods have wreaked havoc across the country. In New Mexico. In North Carolina. And in Texas, where by many accounts, the National Weather Service acted appropriately as it issued increasingly urgent warnings of a deluge last week.
But weather-service staffing has been affected by Trump administration cutbacks across the federal government. Some experts say future forecasts and warnings coul