<p>Pro-life diaper company EveryLife is mobilizing to help families in Texas who suffered devastating losses in the historic floods.</p>
<p>Anyone can purchase a &#8220;Buy For a Cause&#8221; bundle from EveryLife — a month&#8217;s supply of diapers and wipes costs $49.99, and all bundles will be given directly to &#8220;families in dire need due to the Texas floods,&#8221; EveryLife said on its website.</p>
<p>“We are praying for miracles in Texas,” Sarah Gabel Seifert, President and Co-Founder of EveryLife, said in a statement to The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>“The devastation families are facing is unimaginable — yet in the midst of such tremendous loss, we’ve witnessed something remarkable: an overwhelming outpouring of generosity and prayers,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Through our Buy For a Cause program, we’re putting diapers and wipes directly into the hands of parents who have lost everything,” Seifert said, adding that it was “an honor” to work with “the American people and our on-the-ground partners to meet these urgent needs — and to remind Texas families that they are not alone.”</p>
<p>The diaper company&#8217;s boots-on-the-ground partners, Operation Blessing, CityServe, and Convoy of Hope, are &#8220;working tirelessly to ensure these essential items reach families impacted by any means necessary,&#8221; EveryLife said.</p>
<p>At least 107 people have died in the massive floods that hit Texas on July 4. Many families with small children were displaced from their homes and are still in need of basic essentials like diapers and wipes. Rescue efforts for survivors are still ongoing.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are blown away by the generosity of our community already,&#8221; Seifert told Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro Wednesday morning. &#8220;We have already seen over 420,000 wipes donated, as well as over 294,000 diapers — and I feel like we&#8217;re just getting started.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">President and Co-Founder <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahGabelSeif?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SarahGabelSeif</a> details the work <a href="https://twitter.com/everylife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@everylife</a> is doing to provide essentials to families in Texas <a href="https://t.co/W6NzrECJfD">pic.twitter.com/W6NzrECJfD</a></p>
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<p>EveryLife was launched in 2023 by PublicSq., an online marketplace that works to help “freedom-loving Americans” find businesses that align with their values and brands itself as a conservative alternative to Amazon.</p>
<p>The pro-life diaper company also supports pro-life organizations, donating diapers and wipes to crisis pregnancy centers.</p>
<p>EveryLife is growing quickly and now delivers diapers in all 50 states, the company said.</p>
<p>When the company launched, EveryLife released an ad calling out progressive companies for embracing anti-life values, such as saying they would cover the travel expenses for their female employees’ abortions.</p>
<p>“While so many companies are promoting what is wrong, we choose to celebrate what is right — life,” the ad’s narrator said. “Every miracle from God, boy and girl, black, tan, and white, planned and unplanned, gifted and special.”</p>
<p>Earlier this year, EveryLife also launched a prayer campaign along with prominent Christian leaders for couples hoping to have children, called “Praying for More Babies in 2025.&#8221;</p>
<p>You can purchase a Buy For A Cause bundle from EveryLife <a href="https://everylife.com/products/buy-for-a-cause?selling_plan=5498536216">here</a>.</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Texas-based country singer Pat Green said his stepbrother and other family members were among the victims of the deadly flooding that occurred over the Fourth of July holiday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Over the weekend, during the devastating flooding that hit Central Texas, my family — like so many others — suffered a heartbreaking and deeply personal loss,” the recording artist shared on his Instagram account. “We are grieving alongside countless Texans whose lives have been upended by this tragedy.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The post continued, “Right now, we kindly ask for privacy and space as we mourn, support each other, and begin to process what comes next for our family. Thank you for your love, prayers, and compassion,” he concluded.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green’s younger stepbrother, John Burgess, 39, is one of the confirmed victims, per local outlet <a href="https://www.kwtx.com/2025/07/05/china-spring-native-family-among-those-missing-amid-deadly-flooding-texas-hill-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KWTX</a>. According to KHOU, his wife, Julia Anderson Burgess, 39, also died. Their two sons, James and Jack, were still missing as of Monday. The deceased couple lived in Liberty, Texas, but were camping at the Blue Oak RV Park in Kerr County with their boys when the flooding occurred. Their 8-year-old daughter was reportedly at a camp that was not affected by the flooding and is safe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to a </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/07/us-news/texas-dad-refused-to-let-go-of-his-babies-during-flood-and-all-were-swept-away-witness-says/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from the New York Post, a bystander at the RV park pleaded with Burgess to hand over his children to safety, but he would not let them go.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My husband was in the water trying to ask them, ‘Please throw me your baby!’ The man was holding tight to his babies, and he just got swept away,” Lorena Guillen, owner of the Blue Oak RV Park, said. </span></p>
<p>As of Wednesday, at least 173 people are still missing, including 161 unaccounted for from Kerr County, the hardest-hit area. <span style="font-weight: 400;">The death toll from the flooding across the state reached 119 on Wednesday, including dozens of children. Five young girls and one counselor remain missing from Camp Mystic, the Christian girls’ camp that took the brunt of the flooding when the Guadalupe River in Central Texas rose more than 30 feet in under an hour in some spots.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green has been in the music industry since 1995, recording seven total studio albums. His single, &#8220;Wave on Wave,&#8221; from his gold-certified album of the same name, reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 2003. It was featured during campaign rallies for George W. Bush during his 2004 re-election campaign.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump plans to travel to Texas on Friday to meet with victims of the devastating Fourth of July weekend flooding that led to at least 110 deaths. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The president will be joined by first lady Melania Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, he confirmed during a Tuesday cabinet meeting. Parts of the Texas Hill Country along the Guadalupe River were hit with sudden flash floods and more than 170 people are still missing. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;ll be going down on Friday with the first lady and we will be taking a trip. And we don&#8217;t want to get in anyone&#8217;s way because, you know, it&#8217;s what happens. The president goes, and everyone&#8217;s around focused. I don&#8217;t want anyone to focus on us,&#8221; Trump said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First responders are still searching for potential survivors as Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said Tuesday that 161 people were missing in Kerr County and another 12 throughout other impacted areas. Emergency responders have rescued at least 850 people. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;They could have somebody saved still,” Trump said. “And, you know, probably unlikely at this point, but that could be. I mean, they&#8217;re thinking there could be the possibility, but, what a tragic situation.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump also stated that the relationship between federal responders and Texas first responders was very good, noting that numerous federal helicopters were deployed to assist local rescuers.  </span></p>
<p>Earlier this week, Trump approved a major disaster declaration for Texas, and top administration officials have moved to offer federal help to the region.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared a public health emergency on Tuesday to surge healthcare resources to the region. The Department of Housing and Urban Development also announced a 90-day foreclosure moratorium on Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured single-family mortgages in Kerr County.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dozens of children attending Camp Mystic, a Christian girls&#8217; camp in Kerr County, died in the flooding. Five girls and one counselor are still missing, according to an update provided on Tuesday. </span>Flood victims included 8-year-old campers Renee Smajstrla and Eloise Peck, 19-year-old camp counselor Chloe Childress, and the camp’s 74-year-old director, Dick Eastland.</p>
<p>Other young victims include twin sisters Blaire and Brooke Harber, who were <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/sisters-found-hands-locked-together-following-20630269.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> 15 miles from where the flood waters washed them away from their grandparents&#8217; cabin near the Guadalupe River. Their grandparents remain missing.</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump fields questions on tariffs, Ukraine, and Jeffrey Epstein during his sixth cabinet meeting, fallout continues from the Central Texas floods, and the Trump administration rejects amnesty but hints at flexibility for some illegal immigrant workers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s Wednesday, July 9, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump Convenes His Cabinet</span></h2>
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<p><b>Topline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">  President Trump provided new details on tariffs, support for Ukraine, and Jeffrey Epstein during a wide-ranging cabinet meeting on Tuesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cabinet meetings traditionally take place behind closed doors, but on Tuesday, President Trump spent nearly two hours taking questions from reporters. While many questions addressed the recent flash flooding in Texas, the president also spent a considerable amount of time discussing his plans for new tariffs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In April, President Trump announced a 90-day pause on his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs to offer countries a chance to negotiate lower rates — but warned that any country that didn’t come to the table would be hit with massive tariffs on July 9. However, despite early signs of optimism from our trading partners, the reality is that we have yet to see the “90 deals in 90 days” that the White House initially promised. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To date, the only countries with formal, finalized trade agreements are the United Kingdom and Vietnam. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The White House insists it is approaching the finish line with the European Union, India, and Cambodia, among others, but the administration clearly needs more time. On Monday, the president signed an executive order extending the tariff deadline to August 1. In an effort to expedite negotiations in the meantime, Trump sent letters to more than a dozen countries, stating that without a deal, they would face enormous tariffs on August 1, and if they raised rates in response, the United States would increase them even further. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also announced that the United States government had collected “about $100 billion in tariff income thus far this year” and projected that that figure could rise to well over $300 billion by the end of the year.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, since taking office and that disastrous White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Trump administration has significantly cut its military and financial support for Ukraine. Trump said that he was worried Zelensky would avoid peace talks if he knew the United States would send an endless supply of weapons, and there were those in Washington who believed Russian President Vladimir Putin would be more willing to come to the table if support was cut off.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But with Moscow stepping up its attacks on population centers in Ukraine and Putin repeatedly backing out of peace talks, Trump has reversed himself and announced that the United States would resume weapons shipments to Ukraine. Trump later added that he’s seriously considering even harsher sanctions on Moscow.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We want to put defensive weapons because Putin is not treating human beings right,” Trump told reporters. “We get a lot of bullsh** thrown at us by Putin — you want to know the truth. He&#8217;s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Trump also turned heads with his remarks on Jeffrey Epstein – the</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Trump administration essentially closed its case on Epstein this week, saying there is no evidence that he was murdered, had a client list, or blackmailed powerful individuals. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That decision has dominated the headlines</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but the president seemed irritated, even </span><a href="https://x.com/9mm_smg/status/1942628135263989932"><span style="font-weight: 400;">exasperated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, when asked about it.“Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you wanna waste the time… I can’t believe you’re asking a question about Epstein at a time like this.”</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tensions High In Texas After Flash Floods Kill Over 100 People</span></h2>
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<p><b>Topline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">While rescue and recovery operations continue in Texas, some are already asking why communities were so unprepared for the natural disaster.</span></p>
<p>The tragedy that has killed more than 100 people, with many still missing, has left officials to face tough questions. <span style="font-weight: 400;">Searches are underway throughout Central Texas. Rains and flash flood warnings have hindered progress, and officials have had to not only look for those missing, but also protect the emergency responders and volunteers that have joined the search crews.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In the Kerr County area alone, there are 161 people who are known to be missing,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2yquWcGJ9g&amp;t=2938s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Tuesday. “We will not stop until every missing person is accounted for. Know this also, there is very likely more to be added to that list.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Press conferences have started to become testy, however, with local and national reporters pushing officials to answer increasingly pointed questions about their disaster response, including but not limited to, “Was the emergency manager awake?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice defended the decision not to issue an evacuation order before the flooding, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgKRuDsTEyk&amp;t=1303s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">arguing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that “evacuation is a delicate balance, because if you evacuate too late you then risk putting busses, or cars, or vehicles, or campers on roads into low water areas trying to get them out which then can make it even more challenging, because these flash floods happen very quickly.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Critics have claimed that recent cuts to the National Weather Service led to the organization being understaffed and less prepared. Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz characterized those allegations as “partisan finger-pointing” and claimed that the local NWS office had surged “additional manpower” in anticipation of possible flooding. The NWS union, which has generally been very critical of the recent cuts, has also said that the reductions did not impact the response.</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">To Deport, Or Not To Deport</span></h2>
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<p><b>Topline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump administration is again signaling a shift in how it is addressing illegal immigration in the farming industry. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been authorized by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to continue worksite raids on farms to sweep for illegal immigrants. That directive was </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/homeland-security-immigration-raids-resume"><span style="font-weight: 400;">issued</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in June, shortly after the administration announced a pause on those raids, as well as raids at hotels and restaurants. Since then, the Trump administration has sent additional signals that it is attempting to balance its commitment to deporting all illegal aliens with more immediate economic concerns, including potential workforce shortages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’re going to take care of our farmers and hotel workers, but we&#8217;re working on it right now,” President Trump said. “We have a lot of cases where ICE would go into the farm, and these are guys that are working there for 10 to 15 years, no problem. … The farmers know them. It’s called ‘farmer responsibility’ or ‘owner responsibility,’ but they&#8217;re going to be largely responsible for these people, and they know these people</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">…They can be here legally. They can pay taxes and everything. They&#8217;re not getting citizenship, but they get other things. And the farmers need them to do the work.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That approach has caused backlash among some of the president&#8217;s more ardent supporters, many of whom favor a zero-tolerance policy towards illegal aliens living and/or working in the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In June, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins </span><a href="https://x.com/BrookeLRollins/status/1934240461717143696"><span style="font-weight: 400;">expressed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> her full commitment to the America First agenda, but said deportations were being “prioritized” in a way to avoid “severe disruptions to our food supply.” On Tuesday, after being questioned by Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan, Rollins elaborated that the Trump administration will offer illegal immigrants working on farms “no amnesty under any circumstances. Mass deportations continue, but in a strategic and intentional way as we move our workforce toward more automation and toward a 100% American workforce.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some reports, mostly out of California, said illegal immigrant farm laborers stopped showing up to work out of fear of deportation, and crops had gone unharvested. One </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/ice-raids-crops-california-farms"><span style="font-weight: 400;">report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> cited numerous farm supervisors who stated that the number of workers dropped dramatically since raids began in California; one supervisor claimed that only 80 of 300 people showed up to work, while another saw a drop from 80 workers to 17. Recent estimates by the Department of Agriculture suggest that about </span><a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor#:~:text=Roughly%20Half%20of%20Hired%20Crop,unauthorized%20is%20highest%20in%20California."><span style="font-weight: 400;">40-50%</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of crop farmworkers are either in the country illegally or lack proper work authorization.</span></p>


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<p>Just days after flash floods ravaged central Texas — leaving at least 100 people killed and more than 160 still missing — a similar warning went out along New Mexico&#8217;s Ruidoso River as it rose rapidly on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The National Weather Service office in Albuquerque posted a warning as the river began to rise, warning residents to avoid the area and not to make any effort to drive through the floodwaters.</p>
<p>&#8220;A DANGEROUS situation is unfolding in RUIDOSO! A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY remains in effect! Seek HIGHER GROUND NOW! Do NOT attempt to drive through the floodwaters. The current will carry away your vehicle!&#8221; the initial post read.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">A DANGEROUS situation is unfolding in RUIDOSO! A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY remains in effect! Seek HIGHER GROUND NOW! Do NOT attempt to drive through the floodwaters. The current will carry away your vehicle! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nmwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nmwx</a></p>
<p>— NWS Albuquerque (@NWSAlbuquerque) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSAlbuquerque/status/1942690477632893088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Additional warnings came out a short time later, showing just how quickly the river was rising.</p>
<p>&#8220;The flood wave on the Rio Ruidoso has reached the Hollywood gage. Stay away from the river! This is a look at the change in the river depth in just 30 minutes, courtesy of the USGS!,&#8221; the post read. Side by side photos showed the change over 30 minutes.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Another 30 minutes later and it&#8217;s hard to tell where the riverbed is. The river is now in major flood stage at over 15 feet. Stay away from the river! Seek higher ground NOW! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nmwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nmwx</a> <a href="https://t.co/gd3ecndelG">pic.twitter.com/gd3ecndelG</a></p>
<p>— NWS Albuquerque (@NWSAlbuquerque) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSAlbuquerque/status/1942706313244361145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>A follow-up post showed a photo taken after another 30 minutes, and the river bed was even higher: &#8220;Another 30 minutes later and it&#8217;s hard to tell where the riverbed is. The river is now in major flood stage at over 15 feet. Stay away from the river! Seek higher ground NOW!&#8221; the NWS warned.</p>
<p>The latest update showed data indicating that the river&#8217;s 20.24 foot provisional crest on Tuesday was a full five feet higher than last year&#8217;s 15.86 foot crest on July 20, 2024.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Rio Ruidoso at Hollywood reached a provisional crest of 20.24 feet this afternoon while significant flash flooding was occurring. If this is confirmed, it would be a record high crest (compared to last year&#8217;s crest of 15.86 feet on July 20th),&#8221; the NWS announced.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Rio Ruidoso at Hollywood reached a provisional crest of 20.24 feet this afternoon while significant flash flooding was occurring . If this is confirmed, it would be a record high crest (compared to last year&#8217;s crest of 15.86 feet on July 20th). <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NMwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NMwx</a> <a href="https://t.co/QHtTrXLf3H">pic.twitter.com/QHtTrXLf3H</a></p>
<p>— NWS Albuquerque (@NWSAlbuquerque) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSAlbuquerque/status/1942733999396286668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">ANOTHER Catastrophic Flood event unfolding NOW this Tuesday evening in New Mexico. The Ruidoso River in NM rose by 20 feet+ in less than an hour shattering a record. Videos coming in now breaking of homes floating down the Ruidoso River. Several inches of rain has fallen on burn… <a href="https://t.co/7yZufCdejH">pic.twitter.com/7yZufCdejH</a></p>
<p>— Noah Bergren (@NbergWX) <a href="https://twitter.com/NbergWX/status/1942721251954332091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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Flooding in Ruidoso

‘Seek HIGHER GROUND NOW’: Dramatic Ruidoso River Rise Sets Off Flash Floods In New Mexico

'Seek HIGHER GROUND NOW': Dramatic Ruidoso River Rise Sets Off Flash Floods In New Mexico

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<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott provided another tragic update on the catastrophic floods on Tuesday, saying that 161 people remain missing in Kerr County, Texas, while another 12 people are still missing in other parts of the state.</p>
<p>Earlier on Tuesday, <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1942691818065580061">reports</a> had the number of those missing at 40, but the governor&#8217;s latest update reveals an even grimmer situation after the state was devastated by the floods that hit over the July Fourth holiday. The death toll from the flooding across the state reached 109 on Monday, including dozens of children.</p>
<p>“To put this into perspective &#8230; there are far more fatalities than there were in Hurricane Harvey. That’s how catastrophic this is,” Abbott <a href="https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/07/08/texas-gov-greg-abbott-provides-latest-numbers-regarding-fatalities-missing-people-in-hill-country-floods/">said</a>, giving an <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1942682122839376065">update</a> from Hunt, Texas, in Kerr County.</p>
<p>&#8220;Know this: We will not stop until every missing person is accounted for,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/texas-floods-live-updates-death-passes-100-rcna217415/rcrd84625?canonicalCard=true">added</a>. &#8220;Know this also: There very likely could be more added to that list.&#8221;</p>
<p>Five young girls and one counselor remain missing from Camp Mystic, the Christian girls&#8217; camp that took the brunt of the flooding when the Guadalupe River in Central Texas rose more than 30 feet in under an hour in some spots. Camp Mystic said on Monday that the death toll of campers and counselors had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unimaginable-tragedy-camp-mystic-says-27-campers-and-counselors-killed-in-sudden-flash-floods?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Unimaginable+Tragedy%E2%80%99%3A+Camp+Mystic+Says+27+Campers+And+Counselors+Killed+In+Sudden+Flash+Floods">risen</a> to 27.</p>
<p>Emergency responders have rescued at least 850 people. One United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer, Scott Ruskan, is credited with saving 165 people, most of them children, alone.</p>
<p>As more days go by in the rescue operation, however, hope for finding anyone alive fades into dread that any bodies found will only add to the already-large death toll.</p>
<p>“The primary job right now continues to be locating everybody who was affected by this flood,” Abbott said.</p>
<p>Flood victims include children such as 8-year-olds, Renee Smajstrla and Eloise Peck, who were attending Camp Mystic, and 64-year-old Sherry Richardson, whose cabin in Liberty Hill, Texas, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/08/us/texas-floods/d4fb0256-df9f-5328-a32a-8b77c20670c0?smid=url-share">swept away</a> on Saturday morning. The bodies of sisters Blaire and Brooke Harber were <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/sisters-found-hands-locked-together-following-20630269.php">found</a> 15 miles from where the flood waters washed them away from a cabin near the river, according to the Houston Chronicle. Blair and Brooke, ages 11 and 13, were found clinging to each other while holding rosaries, their aunt said.</p>


Death Toll Rises After Flash Floods In Texas Hill Country

Number Of Missing Texas Flood Victims Jumps To Over 160, Gov. Abbott Says

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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The following is an adapted monologue from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1765-after-big-wins-trump-s-head-on-mount-rushmore?elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=The+Michael+Knowles+Show&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There were horrific storms and massive floods in Texas this past weekend. So far, over 100 people are confirmed dead, and that number is almost certainly going to rise. Many people are still confirmed missing, including dozens of girls from a Christian summer camp. Just absolutely horrific. We all pray for everyone, for the family, for the dead, and for the rescue efforts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One thing we should not do, however, is react in the way that prominent people on the Left have been reacting. Their reactions are repulsive and nauseating. But they get to a real problem at the heart of liberalism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s just one example. </span><a href="https://x.com/KyleKulinski/status/1941856657069252610"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyle Kulinsky</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a fairly well known Internet person on the Left, writes:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the flooding in Texas and all of those precious little girls dying it&#8217;s important to remember this was 100% preventable. Elon and Trump slashed the national weather service and massively reduced the number of weather balloons in the country, destroying our ability to accurately forecast severe weather events. I&#8217;ve personally experienced forecasts being way off multiple times already. They have blood on their hands and they should be arrested for the deaths of those little girls.</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to the sanctimony, the self-righteousness from this guy: “&#8230;all of those precious little girls dying,” “They have blood on their hands.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">None of this is true. This was not “100% preventable.” Elon and Trump slashing the National Weather Service? As Michael Shellenberger </span><a href="https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1941616444724346983?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet"><span style="font-weight: 400;">points out</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the National Weather Service </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">got this right</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The issue was not the National Weather Service. There do seem to have been errors in sending out alarms at the state level, but there&#8217;s no evidence that the National Weather Service failed at all. There&#8217;s also no evidence that suddenly, just now, in the first year of the second Trump term, the meteorologists are getting forecasts wrong. Obviously, that has happened so frequently that it&#8217;s a punch line for as long as there have been meteorologists.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also know this isn&#8217;t true — that it’s not attributable to any supposed “cuts” made during the second Trump term — because of Hurricane Harvey. The confirmed death toll so far in this awful storm is now 100. Hurricane Harvey killed at least 68 people in 2017 — many years before the supposed cuts to the National Weather Service by Trump and Elon. What would the Left and Kyle Kulinsky blame that on?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s go back further. Tropical Storm Allison </span><a href="https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/this-day-in-weather-history-june-5-2001-tropical-storm-allison"><span style="font-weight: 400;">killed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 41 people in 2001, long before anyone really considered President Trump a serious presidential candidate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, let&#8217;s go back even further than that, because the other thing that people are going to blame this on is climate change or global warming. How about the Galveston Hurricane? The storm surges and floods from that storm killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people in 1900, long before any global warming — “climate change” — and long before Trump, and long before any of the things the Left is going to blame this natural disaster on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plenty of people on the Left have reacted the same way as Kyle Kulinsky.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This reaction entails a lot of vice. You have to have a lot of personal vice and sin to have this kind of reaction. But ultimately, ideologically, it&#8217;s about a denial of original sin.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The tragedy </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">has to be </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">preventable because the world can&#8217;t be fallen, because there can&#8217;t be any such thing as original sin, because there can&#8217;t be any limits on human potential. We must be able to control everything</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We must be able to prevent every bad thing. We must be able to perfect society. It must be true. That is the premise of liberalism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But it&#8217;s not true because it is a fallen world. And you couldn&#8217;t have prevented any of these things. Not in 1900, not in 2001, not just this past week. Bad things just happen sometimes. And bad things happen to good people. It’s called theodicy. Great thinkers have dealt with this problem for millennia, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">but modern people — modern liberals in particular — cannot deal with that because there cannot be such a thing as original sin</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Bad things can&#8217;t just happen,’ they say. ‘We must be able to stop it. We are human beings. We have the potential to totally control the world. We can make ourselves into gods.’</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s the theory, and it’s false.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you ask liberals what would you have done to prevent the flood? They will say things like, “I would have funded the National Weather Service.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There&#8217;s no problem with the National Weather Service. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They might say, “I would have had more carbon tax credits. I would have had more electric vehicles.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But nothing they’ve proposed will stop natural disasters. They wouldn’t have stopped Hurricane Harvey, they wouldn’t have stopped Tropical Storm Allison or the Galveston Hurricane or any of the others. There has been flooding. There have been natural disasters. There has been evil and sin and death in the world since Adam and Eve were booted out of the Garden.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, there are things we can obviously do to protect ourselves, to try to cope, and to comfort people who deal with the suffering that life entails. But this ain&#8217;t it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What it comes down to is a fundamental error in modern ideology — in liberalism, most notably: the hubris, the pride to say, “We can prevent evil. We can just totally stop it. We can perfect the world. We can save the world.” That&#8217;s the error.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These people certainly can&#8217;t. None of us can. There is one person who can save the world. And He has.</span></p>


Texas Floods And Liberal Hubris

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<p>President Donald Trump slammed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday after the Senate minority leader tried to blame Trump for the Texas floods.</p>
<p>&#8220;I saw a Palestinian senator, his name is Schumer, he&#8217;s a great Palestinian,&#8221; Trump said in a White House cabinet meeting. &#8220;He&#8217;s become a Palestinian. He&#8217;s abandoned the Jews. But I saw him say, &#8216;It&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s fault. Yeah, yeah, that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s fault.'&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> slams <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a> for blaming him for the horrific Texas flooding: &quot;I actually saw that stupid guy try to blame it on me&#8230; but his career is limited because I hear AOC is going to beat him.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fFStWivf0J">pic.twitter.com/fFStWivf0J</a></p>
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<p>Trump compared Schumer&#8217;s remarks to Jon Lovitz&#8217;s Saturday Night Live character Tommy Flanagan, the pathological liar.</p>
<p>&#8220;I actually saw that stupid guy try to blame it on me,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And I said, &#8216;Man, that&#8217;s a tough one to take.&#8217; But his career is limited, because I hear AOC is going to beat him, and she&#8217;s no bargain either, by the way.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schumer and other high-profile Democrats have suggested Trump&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) might have exacerbated the crisis by reducing staff and funding from federal weather agencies.</p>
<p>In a letter, Schumer <a href="https://x.com/RossOKeefe2/status/1942180517396336816/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for an investigation into the National Weather Service on Monday to determine if staffing shortages &#8220;contributed to the massive loss of life and property.&#8221; He cited a New York Times report that said certain Texas forecasting and coordination positions were vacant.</p>
<p>&#8220;NYT further reports that the vacancy rate at many NWS offices nationwide has roughly doubled since President Trump returned to office — due in part to a wave of early retirements encouraged by the administration and a freeze on hiring,&#8221; Schumer&#8217;s letter said.</p>
<p>However, meteorologists have stated that cuts by the federal government did not impact flood warnings or responses, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theres-no-evidence-to-suggest-doge-cuts-caused-texas-flood-devastation-meteorologists-say">reported</a>.</p>
<p>“There is little evidence that any of the recent cuts to NOAA/NWS negatively impacted services for this event, regardless of what may be being said on social media,” Alan Gerard, a former director of the Analysis and Understanding Branch in the National Severe Storms Laboratory at NOAA, <a href="https://balancedweather.substack.com/p/balancedwx-special-tragic-flash-flooding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said.</a></p>
<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also <a href="https://x.com/RealAmVoice/status/1942274920966414721">criticized</a> Schumer and &#8220;members of the media&#8221; for blaming Trump for the floods.</p>
<p>&#8220;Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie, and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning,&#8221; Leavitt said.</p>
<p>More than 100 people have died in the Texas flash floods, including 28 children.</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gracie Hunt, the daughter of the Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, mourned the loss of her 9-year-old cousin Janie Hunt, who was one of at least 27 campers and counselors tragically killed in the floods that suddenly engulfed Camp Mystic last weekend. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hunt </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DL0hBPwOrBA/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">posted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a message on Monday to her Instagram account, offering a tribute to the deceased and sharing a hopeful message from the Bible to her followers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Some days, it’s hard to understand how the world can hold both so much beauty and so much pain,” she wrote. “How can the same God who created the stars and set the planets in motion allow such deep suffering? The truth is, we live in a broken world—one that groans for redemption (Romans 8). But Scripture promises that one day, Christ will make all things new—a new heaven and a new earth (2 Peter 3:13).”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My heart aches for our extended family and friends who lost daughters – for every life lost and every family shattered by the floods in Texas. I don’t have easy answers, but I do know this: following Jesus doesn’t spare us from pain – but it means we never face it alone.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The death toll from the Texas flash floods has risen beyond 100 people in the state. In Kerr County, where Camp Mystic is located, first responders have recovered the bodies of 84 people, 28 of whom were children. </span></p>
<p>Ten girls from Camp Mystic and a counselor are still missing. The camp’s 74-year-old director, Dick Eastland, was killed in the flooding, along with Chloe Childress, an 18-year-old camp counselor.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hunt ended her message with encouragement, asking her followers to “hold on to hope,” and shared verses from 2 Corinthians and Psalms. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Even in the darkest valleys, we hold on to the hope that this is not the end of the story,” she posted.</span></p>
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NFL: DEC 08 Chargers at Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs Heiress Turns To Scripture After 9-Year-Old Cousin Killed In Texas Flood

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least 104 people, including dozens of children, are dead after devastating flooding in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend as recovery efforts continue. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Officials said Monday that the death toll could still rise as dozens are still reported missing. Among the dead are 28 children, including around two dozen who were attending Camp Mystic, a private Christian summer camp for girls near the Guadalupe River in Kerr County.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Authorities <a href="https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-search-rescue-flood/3879504/#:~:text=Officials%20say%20at%20least%2041,River%20corridor%20on%20July%204." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that 84 of the deaths were in Kerr County, while the other 20 were in Travis, Williamson, Burnet, Tom Green, and Kendall counties. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We will remain 100 percent dedicated, searching for every single one of the children who were at Camp Mystic, as well as anybody else, and the entire riverbed to make sure that they’re going to be recovered,” Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ten girls from Camp Mystic and a counselor are still missing. The camp’s 74-year-old director, Dick Eastland, was killed in the flooding. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If he wasn’t going to die of natural causes, this was the only other way, saving the girls that he so loved and cared for,” George Eastland, the director’s grandson, </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DLwKvu9A6Jd/?img_index=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Instagram. “That’s the man my grandfather was. A husband, father, grandfather, and mentor to thousands of young women, he no longer walks this earth, but his impact will never leave the lives he touched.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another one of the victims was Chloe Childress, an 18-year-old camp counselor. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Chloe Childress lived a beautiful life that saturated those around her with contagious joy, unending grace, and abiding faith,” her family </span><a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/state/texas-news/texas-flood/camp-mystic-counselor-chloe-childress/285-c7f2cb2a-75cd-445f-82c7-37509ce92e8d"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Monday. “Returning as a counselor to the place she loved so dearly, Chloe was looking forward to dedicating her summer days to loving and mentoring young girls at Camp Mystic.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A pair of 8-year-old twin sisters attending Camp Mystic, Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence, were also killed in the flooding. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Hanna and Rebecca brought so much joy to us, to their big sister Harper, and to so many others,” their parents </span><a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-flooding-camp-mystic-hanna-rebecca-lawrence"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “We will find ways to keep that joy, and to continue to spread it for them. But we are devastated that the bond we shared with them, and that they shared with each other, is now frozen in time.  Thank you for the love and support.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other victims included campers and people who were caught in their vehicles and homes by the sudden flash flooding. Emergency responders successfully rescued around 850 people. According to the Department of Homeland Security, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Scott Ruskin was responsible for saving 165 of them. </span></p>


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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Eleven people have been arrested in what law enforcement described as a &#8220;planned ambush&#8221; of corrections officers at an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">One Alvarado police officer was <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-ice-detention-center-attack-alvarado">shot in the neck</a> during the attack and is expected to survive.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Early reports indicate that more than a dozen masked individuals dressed in black arrived at the Prairieland ICE detention facility late Friday night and vandalized vehicles and security cameras in the parking lot,” CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/alvarado-police-officer-shot-suspects-open-fire-fourth-of-july-johnson-county/">reported</a>. “The individuals launched fireworks in an apparent effort to lure law enforcement.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">On July 5, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on X, “We are closely monitoring the attacks on DHS detention facilities in Prairieland, TX, and Portland, OR, and are coordinating with the USAOs and our law enforcement partners. The Department has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will bring the full weight of the law against those responsible.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are closely monitoring the attacks on DHS detention facilities in Prairieland, TX, and Portland, OR, and are coordinating with the USAOs and our law enforcement partners. The Department has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will bring the full…</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday, acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson stated, “We’re here to tell you that late at night on July 4, Friday night at approximately 10:37 p.m. at the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, ten to twelve individuals dressed in black, military-style clothing, began shooting fireworks and engaging in acts of vandalism at the facility and this was part of an organized attack.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Today, my office has charged ten individuals with three counts of attempted murder of a federal officer,” she continued. “Each of the ten are also charged with three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Each of these defendants faces a mandatory prison term of ten years and up to life in prison. An additional co-conspirator was charged with an obstruction of justice and conspiracy for attempting to conceal and destroy evidence in relation to the attack, and he faces up to ten years in prison.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Let’s discuss the incident,” she continued. “It was a planned ambush with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers. Make no mistake; this was not a so-called ‘peaceful protest.’ It was, indeed, an ambush.”</p>
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<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt set the record straight on Monday after multiple media outlets had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dana-bash-blames-climate-change-donald-trumps-administration-for-texas-floods">blamed President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration</a> for what they claimed was a lack of necessary staffing at the National Weather Service (NWS).</p>
<p>Multiple reports have circulated — in the wake of devastating flash flooding in central Texas — suggesting that Trump&#8217;s efforts to shrink the size of the federal government through the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had led to a shortage of key staffers in the Texas NWS offices responsible for warning the local population in the event of a flood.</p>
<p>Leavitt pushed back, saying that the offices in question were, in fact, fully staffed.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> dispels the fake news around National Weather Service staffing in the wake of the weekend&#8217;s devastating Texas flooding: &#8220;The San Angelo office was fully staffed with 12 forecast meteorologists &#8230; The San Antonio office was operating with 11 forecasters.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/sk5rPG1Tv1">pic.twitter.com/sk5rPG1Tv1</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;Are there concerns within the White House or from the president himself that the cuts that happened under Musk while he was advising DOGE, including the National Weather Service?&#8221; one reporter asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;ve already addressed that &#8230; and what I can tell you is that these offices were fully staffed,&#8221; Leavitt explained. &#8220;The San Angelo office was fully staffed with 12 forecast meteorologists, there were no vacancies. The San Antonio office was operating with 11 forecasters, and &#8230; the union themselves said that there was adequate staffing, so I think those words speak for themselves, and the numbers speak for themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This was a once-in-a-century flash flood, a tragic natural disaster, and the administration is doing all that we can on the ground to help these families during this time of need,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that he planned to visit the flood-ravaged state in the near future, but wanted to wait until his presence would not be a hindrance to relief efforts.</p>


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‘These Offices Were Fully Staffed’: Karoline Leavitt Corrects The Record On National Weather Service

'These Offices Were Fully Staffed': Karoline Leavitt Corrects The Record On National Weather Service

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