Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat on Monday asked a government watchdog to investigate whether cuts at the National Weather Service affected the forecasting agency’s response to catastrophic and deadly flooding in Central Texas. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer asked the Department of Commerce’s acting inspector general Monday to probe whether staffing vacancies at the NWS’s San Antonio office contributed to ‘delays, gaps, or diminished accuracy’ in forecasting the flooding. He asked the watchdog to scrutinize the office’s communications with Kerr County officials.” (07/07/25)