Mr. Trump said his administration was working with state and local officials and that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would be arriving in Texas shortly. DHS oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.

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