“BREAKING Texas State Representative Gene Wu exposes how Republicans are directly responsible for the tragic flash flood deaths in his state and slams them for ignoring climate change when we have 500 year storms that keep hitting every single year This was a showstopping takedown by Wu The New York Times reported this year the Texas legislature funded only a very small portion of this backlog of flood management projects totaling some 54 billion said CNNs Jake Tapper 54 billion Because as you know these floods are not new This is the worst of them Tapper continued But the idea of flooding in this area and other parts of Texas is a constant threat to lives So this 54 billion went largely unfunded but the legislature did pass 51 billion of property tax cuts What was your take on that The Republican decision to slash property taxes while neglecting lifesaving flood prevention projects is a perfect microcosm of the kleptocratic MAGA ethos best demonstrated at the federal level by the Big Beautiful Bill which cuts 1 trillion from Medicaid while ramming through tax cuts for the rich Republicans are looting the treasury at every level of government from the White House down to the State House and working class Americans are getting stuck with the deadly consequences So this is one of the things that weve been railing against said Wu Democrats in this House whether this session or previous session continuously offer bills to help prepare for disasters Rep Martinez had a bill this time that would help us locate victims faster Rep Anchia had a bill to say lets have preparedness studies for these extreme storms Rep Reynolds had a bill to say lets push money into damaged communities faster Every single one of these bills and a dozen other bills were all killed by Republicans and for no reason at all Wu continued Every single time Democrats try to bring up that its not just the 100 year storm its the 200 year storms its the 500 year storms that keep hitting every single year Trump has claimed that the flooding was a hundredyear catastrophe but we know for a fact that climate change which Republicans call a hoax is making extreme weather events deadlier and more frequent with each passing year And were saying theres something wrong with that Youre not supposed to have 500 year events every single year Wu said And every time Democrats offer up legislation amendments to say lets do something about this lets save lives lets prepare its uniformly rejected on party lines by Republicans So far at least 120 people have been confirmed dead from the Texas floods At this point voting for Republicans must be considered a form of national suicide These conservative politicians care about one thing stripping this country down to the studs on behalf of their wealthy donors and corporations If they keep getting elected the body count will just keep rising as more and more wealth is siphoned away from the rest of us We are in an existential struggle for survival Vote accordingly”
Fact-Check Summary The post by Texas State Representative Gene Wu claims that Republican legislative decisions in Texas have led to a tragic neglect of flood prevention in favor of property tax cuts, paralleling broader federal trends. Objective evidence supports these core claims. Texas faces a $54 billion backlog in flood management projects while only allocating […]