Overview

• President Trump publicly blamed President Biden earlier this week for the scale of the Central Texas flooding
• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats are calling for a formal inquiry into National Weather Service vacancies and budget cuts in Texas
• Meteorologists identified an upper-level disturbance, remnants of Tropical Storm Barry and a low-level jet stream as the main drivers of the torrential rains
• Former Obama aides Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau criticized both parties on their Pod Save America podcast for politicizing the human tragedy
• Social media commentators on both the left and right drew sharp blame lines, with some targeting MAGA supporters and others condemning those attacks as insensitive