While interviewing Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell of California Tuesday morning, CNN News Central co-host Kate Bolduan gave a suggestion straight out of 1984 in order to justify biased reporting. The dystopian world she lived in? One where the White House disagreed with the media’s accusations that cuts to the National Weather Service were directly responsible for the death toll in the recent Texas floods.
Even though evidence for any negative impact from Trump’s cuts was lacking, Bolduan seemed set on telling such a narrative:
There are big questions being raised about the warnings that happened and the impacts also of cuts to – that the Trump administration had made to the National Weather Service. And while everyone you speak to says a review needs to be done, analysis needs to be done, there's no direct throughline. I did have a former administrator of NOAA just on this morning who said that he thinks the administration's workforce cuts at the National Weather Service contributed to the problem.
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You have Chuck Schumer now who's sent a letter asking for the Commerce Department to investigate whether staffing shortages contributed to the tragedy. Here, the White House is pushing back very hard and suggesting that this is all motivated by politics.
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