Amid the fatal flash flooding that hit south-central Texas on Friday, as devastated communities still searched for missing loved ones, countless Democratic officials and media pundits immediately blamed President Donald Trump and his cuts to the National Weather Service's budget and staffing for the tragic loss of lives.

In the aftermath, however, several meteorologists and other officials have provided evidence that proves that Trump's NWS cuts had no impact on the disastrous situation in Texas, as the relevant local offices of the agency had sufficient staffing and issued timely warnings ahead of the deadly flooding, Breitbart reported.

In the end, the rapidly rising waters that swept through a historic floodplain and claimed dozens of lives in the early morning hours, while most people were still sleeping, were a terrible result of a confluence of factors that greatly exceeded the predictions of even seasoned veteran forecasters.

Democrats blame Trump for deadly flash floods

Breitbart shared several examples of Democrats and media figures swiftly blaming President Trump for the estimated 90+ lives lost, including dozens of child campers, when the Guadalupe River in south-central Texas rose more than 30 feet in less than two hours on Friday morning after multiple days of localized torrential rainfall in the region.

The politicized narrative put forward by Democrats, and dutifully echoed by their media allies, was that Trump's cuts to the NWS's funding and staffing had prevented the federal agency from adequately warning residents and visitors to evacuate the area ahead of the catastrophic flash flooding.

Except that grim narrative is patently false, and Trump had "absolutely nothing" to do with the horrific tragedy, as multiple media outlets and meteorologists -- all of whom have been highly critical of the NWS cuts -- have begrudgingly acknowledged in the following days after the floods.

NWS meteorologists push back against false narrative

An Associated Press report on Sunday noted that the NWS office in New Braunfels, which covers the flooded area, "had extra staff on duty during the storms," and that while "the office would typically have two forecasters on duty during clear weather, they had up to five on staff."

Jason Runyen, a meteorologist in that office, told the outlet, "There were extra people in here that night, and that’s typical in every weather service office -- you staff up for an event and bring people in on overtime and hold people over."

Likewise, The Texas Tribune reported that Greg Waller, who works at the NWS Forecast Center in Fort Worth, said of the federal agency's efforts ahead of the flash floods, "We had adequate staffing. We had adequate technology. This was us doing our job to the best of our abilities."

Indeed, per The Tribune and a timeline of events shared by the Department of Homeland Security, the NWS first issued a flash flood watch for the impacted area more than 12 hours earlier, and sent out as many as 10 updates, warnings, and emergency alerts of increasingly dire tone and specificity of the impending danger over the ensuing hours.

Trump's cuts had "absolutely nothing" to do with this tragedy

In his weather-focused Substack blog, Houston-based meteorologist Matt Lanza explained that the deadly flash floods were the result of the remnants of the Gulf moisture-laden Tropical Storm Barry combining with a slow-moving storm system moving north along the jet stream that essentially stalled out and dumped the equivalent of a month's worth of rain in the historically flood-prone area in the span of just a few days.

As to whether President Trump's budget and staffing cuts were at fault, he asserted, "No. In this particular case, we have seen absolutely nothing to suggest that current staffing or budget issues within NOAA and the NWS played any role at all in this event. Anyone using this event to claim that is being dishonest."

"There are many places you can go with expressing thoughts on the current and proposed cuts. We've been very vocal about them here. But this is not the right event for those takes," he continued.

"In fact, weather balloon launches played a vital role in forecast messaging on Thursday night as the event was beginning to unfold," Lanza added. "If you want to go that route, use this event as a symbol of the value NOAA and NWS bring to society, understanding that as horrific as this is, yes, it could always have been even worse."