Fact check: Did the Trump administration defund the National Weather Service ahead of flooding?
"The reason the Texans had no idea that a giant flash-flood that killed 20 plus people was going to be coming to them was because the Trump regime has defunded not only the National Weather Service but also what's known as NOAA ... both of those things are how we predict weather events like these," a July 6 TikTok post said.
Louis Jacobson, Ella Moore and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact reporters