When Donald Trump and the DOGE team made massive and completely irrational cuts to the National Weather Service, experts across the political spectrum warned that this would devastate its ability to predict severe weather and warn of impending disasters.
And now we're seeing the results:
Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed 24 people. NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the Trump administration in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy, losing approximately 600 staffers. After the cuts, the agency—which was already understaffed—began to prepare to offer "degraded" forecasting services, facing "severe shortages" of meteorologists, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times in April (source).
These cuts left our fellow Americans without warning or protection, and we've seen the deadly results. It's time to take action before the next disaster strikes.
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