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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned Democrats and media for pushing the “depraved lie” that President Donald Trump is to blame for the Central Texas floods as she addressed reporters Monday afternoon.

The death toll has reached over 90 with at least 41 more lacking after the Guadalupe River rose to the peak of a two-story building early Friday morning.

“Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie and it serves no purpose in the time of national mourning,” Leavitt mentioned, including that the National Weather Service “did its job” and “executed timely and precise forecasts and warnings” despite the “unprecedented rainfall.” It comes after NATO chief Mark Rutte pinpointed the precise means World War 3 is almost certainly to start.

At least a dozen more have been lacking from Camp Mustic in Kerr County, officers mentioned. Leavitt blasted Sen. Chuck Schumer and media for pushing “falsehoods.”

This comes after Schumer despatched a letter to the Commerce Department’s Acting Inspector General Roderick Anderson, demanding he “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 cited the job cuts by the Trump administration via the Department of Government Efficiency initiatives headed by Elon Musk to slash federal spending, which included “vital forecasting, meterology and coordination roles” in the NWS.

“These are the experts responsible for modeling storm impacts, monitoring rising water levels, issuing flood warnings, and coordinating directly with local emergency managers about when to warn the public and issue evacuation orders,” Schumer wrote. “To put it plainly: they help save lives.”

Critics and netizens online blasted Trump for {golfing} and participating in leisure actions over the weekend as devastation ravaged the Lone Star State, the Irish Star reported.

Trump signed a main catastrophe declaration for Kerr County on Sunday morning “due to damage resulting from severe storms, straight-line winds, and flooding beginning on July 2,” after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott requested him to do so.

The declaration is supposed to “ensure that our brave first responders immediately have the resources they need.”

The president has yet to go to Texas in the wake of the floods, but claims he’ll “probably” journey to the Lone Star State later this week.

“We wanted to leave a little time,” he informed reporters.

“I would have done it today, but we’d just be in their way. Probably Friday.”

Speaking to reporters in a video he reposted to Truth Social, however, he claimed he had “been in touch” with officers in Texas.

“We’ve been in touch with Governor Abbott [the Governor of Texas]. I am very close to Governor Abbott,” he informed Fox reporters.

“And, uh, everybody in Texas. [Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem has, you know, been there and will continue to be there,” he mentioned.

“And we’re working very close with representatives from Texas, and it’s a horrible thing that took place. Absolutely horrible,” he added.

In a social media post, Abbott mentioned, “We won’t stop until we find every girl who was in those cabins.”

“It’s gonna be a long time before we’re ever going to be able to clean it up much less rebuild it,” Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly mentioned at a Saturday briefing. “We didn’t know. We knew we’d get rain, we know the river rises but nobody saw this coming.”

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