President Donald Trump's budget requests to Congress for NOAA and his plans to phase out FEMA are under the microscope after fatal Texas floods.

Democrats and media outlets faced criticism in recent days for blaming climate change and other political agenda items for devastating floods in central Texas.

The weekend’s fatal floods in Texas have sparked immediate clashes in Congress over the federal government’s role in preventing, or at least minimizing, the human toll of natural disasters. On one side are Democrats pointing to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) as a potential reason the flood victims were