An estimated 500 National Weather Service employees have taken early retirements or been fired this year as part of DOGE cuts in the federal government workforce.
Now the agency is short-staffed heading into hurricane season
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/05/14/national-weather-service-vacancies-hurricane-season/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
Now the agency is short-staffed heading into hurricane season
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/05/14/national-weather-service-vacancies-hurricane-season/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
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Well done, red state Republicans, great work all around. Enjoy your self-funded recovery.
Nothing to worry about.
The public will soon find out the massive widespread benefits of government functions like weather forecasting for the public, private businesses and the agriculture industry.
They are using legislation and incompetence to do more damage than any adversary has ever done.
That's Trump theory on everything - if you don't do testing then you have less covid.
It is utterly ridiculous and a lot of people at going to be at risk.
It would be tremendously biased to blame the consequences of small government on the party of small government, amirite?
as part of every storm this hurricane season, how will you incorporate and report the decimated staff and funding cuts for modeling or technical support during hurricane season?