Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding

<p>Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say</p><p>Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting.</p><p>Cruz, who infamously <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/18/ted-cruz-cancun-flight-texas-storms-holiday-senator-reports">fled</a> Texas for Cancun when a crippling winter storm ravaged his state in 2021, was <a href="https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1942287201984995489">seen</a> visiting the Parthenon in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday, a day after a flash flood along the Guadalupe River in central Texas killed more than 100 people, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/texas-floods-summer-camp-death-toll-victims">including</a> dozens of children and counselors at a camp.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/ted-cruz-trump-weather-forecasting-cuts">Continue reading...</a>