Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said without staffing cuts to the National Weather Service, Texans would have received an “earlier, better warning” of the flood.

Swalwell echoed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-CA) in blaming the NWS layoffs in February for the slow response time to the floods, which killed at least 104 people as of Tuesday morning. Schumer requested that the Department of Commerce’s acting inspector general, Roderick Anderson, look into whether the layoffs affected the response time to the disaster.