Dowd: GOP ‘Lack of Funding’ Made TX Flood Worse

Former Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Republican “lack of funding” for government programs made the devastation from the deadly flood of the Guadalupe River in central Texas “worse.”

Dowd said, “The problem is there’s Republicans at the local level, Republicans at the state level and Republicans at the federal level. All of them hold the leadership that’s necessary to fix problems like this. So we can identify specific things that could have been done at the federal level that might have been missing because of cuts and all of that, or at the state level.”

He continued, “There was a bill before the legislature that got defeated by Republicans that would have provided funding to counties to do

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