Trump Has Some Potentially Deadly Cuts Planned for Weather Research

Photo credit: rbeard113 via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling. The New Republic – April 11, 2025.

Next on the White House’s chopping block: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Trump administration is planning to close “all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices,” CNN reported Friday. In internal documents obtained by the network, the administration claimed that the agency’s myriad weather-related programs “are misaligned with the … expressed will of the American people.” […]

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