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Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas ...
Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.
By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.
President Donald Trump drew on a map of a forecast for Hurricane Dorian in 2019. He did it to indicate the storm would go ...
"The reason the Texans had no idea that a giant flash-flood that killed 20 plus people was going to be coming to them was because the Trump regime has defunded not only the National Weather Service ...
Lawmakers from both parties have so far rejected steep cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...
Neil Jacobs, Trump’s pick to head NOAA who is on the path to confirmation, was the acting NOAA administrator at the time. For ...
As I sit down to write this piece, the death toll in Texas has reached 135, with many more than that missing and presumed dead. A national tragedy brought about by biblical-like flooding that took ...
Two top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials who played a role in the high-profile “Sharpiegate” ...
Members of Congress are expressing renewed support for the nation’s weather forecasting system after deadly flooding in Texas and elsewhere put the focus on cuts within the National Oceanic and ...
Discover how Trump administration budget cuts have decimated staffing at the National Weather Service's office in Hanford, ...
Staffing ‘a top priority’ The issue of staffing at NOAA also came up in the confirmation hearing for Neil Jacobs, Trump’s nominee to lead NOAA, in the Senate Commerce Committee on July 10.