Camp Mystic kids sing hymns as they evacuate floods in Texas
The children at Camp Mystic sang during a post-flood evacuation in Texas.
New York Post – Vertical
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said state Reel will visit Texas on Friday after more than 100 people were confirmed to have died in the catastrophic floods last weekend.
Trump spoke with reporters at a White House dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night, when he spoke to a reporter about his July 11 trip to Texas.
“Texas was seriously hurt by something that was a huge surprise late in the evening,” Trump said. “So we’ll work with the governor and all the people in Texas. We’ll go on Friday.”
On January 6th, Trump visited Texas that day, but said he “don’t want to get in their way.”
Search and rescue operations in central Texas entered the fifth day Tuesday after overwhelm the Guadalupe River on Tuesday, sending floods to homes and summer camps, killing more than 100 people.
On July 8th, he turned 104 on July 8th. This includes at least 27 children and counselors from Camp Mystic, which flooded at the beginning of the most difficult beginning of flooding in the early hours of July 4th.
Trump didn’t say where he would visit in Texas. The state’s governor, Republican Greg Abbott, is a strong ally of the president. The flooded community includes Republicans heavy Kerrville has earned Trump nearly three-quarters of the overall vote in the 2024 election.
Democrats have scrutinized the role Trump’s recent cuts in the National Marine and Atmospheric Administration, including the National Weather Service, may have played in limiting flash food warnings and other alerts for residents in flooded areas.
New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer asked representative Commerce inspectors to investigate whether staffing vacancy in the NWS’ San Antonio office contributed to predicting floods by “delays, gaps, or loss of accuracy.”
The White House has vehemently defended the weather services’ actions, saying the forecasts and alerts were “timely and accurate” due to flooding on July 3 and 4th.
“Unfortunately, this generational natural disaster has seen many falsehoods pushed away by Democrats, including Sen. Chuck Schumer and some members of the media,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said during a July 7 briefing with a reporter. “To blame President Trump for these floods is a fallen lie and there is no purpose in this nation’s mourning.”
Contribution: Jeannine Santucci from USA Today, Reuters
