"This was an act of God. It is not the administration's fault that the flood hit when it did," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday, noting that the NWS "did its job" by sending ...

HOUSTON, July 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democrats are pushing for an investigation into the staff cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) as the death toll from flash flooding in central Texas has reached ...

令人心碎的得克萨斯州洪灾夺去了至少27名夏令营儿童的生命，这为此前针对特朗普政府削减国家气象局预算的严厉警告提供了惨痛的印证。 评论人士指出，这些原本可以避免的生命损失，正是特朗普及其盟友以“削减浪费”为名，对关键政府服务进行系统性破坏的直接结果。