by Tom Ellis – October 2025 Newsletter

Many people remember the July 4-5 central Texas floods that killed more than 100 and left ever more missing.

Some are blaming the high death toll on 2025 cutbacks to federal agencies that disabled the ability of professional staff to communicate fast changing weather information to those who could have quickly issued warnings and saved lives.

Trump, who never takes responsibility for his errors, denied any culpability and even blamed the high death toll on the Biden Administration. Rest assured that future natural and unnatural disasters will be handled similarly.

At present, the Trump Administration is greatly deregulating nuclear power oversight while fast tracking new nuclear stations construction. More than half the US operable reactors are over 45 years old, the two oldest are in NY, and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has begun extending operating licenses to eighty years.

Trump is increasing the likelihood of a major nuclear radiation release.

Trump, Vance, Johnson and Kennedy are destroying the competence of the federal government in many realms, and especially its ability to prevent and minimize disease and disasters. They are not making America great again; they are weakening the United States by eliminating technical and managerial expertise nurtured over decades.