Fatal floods in Texas draw howls from Dems over Trump cuts

The weekend’s fatal floods in Texas have sparked immediate clashes in Congress over the federal government's role in preventing, or at least minimizing, the human toll of natural disasters. 

On one side are Democrats pointing to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) as a potential reason the flood victims were not better forewarned. They’re calling for investigations into why the alert systems in place were not more effective.

On the other side are President Trump’s GOP allies...