Schumer Demands Probe Into Weather Service Cuts

The Hill reports:

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is demanding that the Commerce Department’s inspector general investigate vacancies at National Weather Service offices and if they increased the death toll in recent flash flooding in Texas.

Schumer wrote in a Monday letter to Roderick Anderson, the Commerce Department’s acting inspector general, urging him to immediately “open an investigation into the scope, breadth, and ramifications of whether staffing shortages at key local National Weather Service (NWS) stations contributed to the catastrophic loss of life and property during the deadly flooding.”

He noted that The New York Times reported that key forecasting and coordination positions at the San Antonio and San Angelo offices of the NWS were vacant at the time of the Friday storm.

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Sen. Chuck Schumer is sending a letter to the Acting Inspector General asking him to explain whether NWS cuts affected the response to Texas floods.

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