House Democrats call for urgent review of deadly Texas flooding as Trump tours disaster zone
Source: The Independent
Friday 11 July 2025 19:19 EDT
House Democrats addressed a letter to President Donald Trump and weather infrastructure officials on Friday, expressing “deep concern” about the flooding in Kerr County, Texas, and the “structural shortcomings at the federal, state, and local levels that contributed to the tragic loss of life.” It comes as Trump toured disaster areas alongside local officials on Friday.
Democratic Reps. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Lloyd Doggett of Texas, and Eric Sorenson of Illinois wrote to the president and Laura Grimm, who is performing the duties of the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as Lt. Gen. William Graham Jr., the Chief of Engineers.
“This tragedy echoes a troubling national pattern of accelerating flash flood disasters that have claimed lives,” the members of Congress wrote, noting the 46 killed in New York in September 2021, the 45 who died in July 2022, the 20 killed in Tennessee in August 2021, and the 250 who died across the Southeast in September of last year.
“These events are not anomalies—they are harbingers of a climate-disrupted future,” they stated. Doggett represents a district in the Austin, Texas area, hours from the flood epicenter in Kerr County. Sorensen is a meteorologist.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-floods-trump-democrats-review-b2787664.html
Link to PRESS RELEASE - Kaptur, Doggett, & Sorensen Lead Call for Urgent Federal Action After Deadly Texas Flood
Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://kaptur.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/kaptur.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/quill-letter-texas-flood.pdf
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