DHS Says Mainstream Media ‘Deliberately Lying’ in Coverage of Events Leading Up to Catastrophic TX Flood – RedState
The death toll in the tragic Texas floods over the weekend keeps rising, yet leftist politicians and the mainstream media wasted no time in politicizing the heartbreak and trying to pin blame for the natural event on Donald Trump and his administration.
They blame everything from DOGE to cuts to the National Weather Service to budget reductions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), but as RedState’s Bonchie points out, most of those cuts haven’t even taken effect yet, and their predictions wouldn’t have changed no matter how high their funding.
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But this second Trump administration is a different beast, and they’re not taking things like this lying down. The Department of Homeland Security blasted the media in a series of Sunday posts and accused the biased press of outright lying:
The mainstream media is deliberately lying about the events leading up to the catastrophic flooding in Texas.
The National Weather Service executed timely, precise forecasting and warnings, despite unprecedented rainfall overwhelming the region.
Here is the timeline of NWS’s…
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 6, 2025
Here is the timeline of NWS’s proactive response:
There are at least 12 subsequent posts by the department proving that they did in fact send out numerous warnings about the potential dangers ahead. Click on the above tweet to read the entire thread, but here are just a few examples:
Morning, July 3rd: NWS Austin/San Antonio conducts forecast briefings for emergency management, flagging flash flood risks.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 6, 2025
4:03 AM, July 4th: Flash Flood Warning upgraded to Flash Flood Emergency for south-central Kerr County, including Hunt.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 6, 2025
5:34 AM, July 4th: Flash Flood Emergency issued for the Guadalupe River, signaling a “large and deadly flood wave.”
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 6, 2025
DHS said the National Weather Service actually did its job:
“The National Weather Service executed timely, precise forecasting and warnings, despite unprecedented rainfall overwhelming the region,” it continued.
The agency also provided a timeline of the National Weather Service’s “proactive response” to the storm beginning on Thursday morning.
“The National Weather Service provided over 12 hours of advance notice via the Flood Watch and over 3 hours of lead time for Flash Flood Warnings, with escalated alerts as the storm intensified,” DHS wrote.
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This is an awful story, and like Bonchie, I’m heartbroken as a parent to contemplate the unimaginable pain the families of the victims are feeling at this time. There will be investigations, and reports, and studies to determine how this could have been better prevented, but this moment is not the time to throw out conjecture, uncorroborated theories and unfounded allegations.
Blaming the Trump administration for cuts that supposedly kneecapped our warning systems is a fool’s game, because as the DHS points out, the warnings went out. There are still questions to be answered about what happened next, but in the meantime, the media should stop throwing out baseless speculation when the waters haven’t even receded yet.
