US EditionDebate Erupts over Role Job Cuts Played in Deadly Texas Floods
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY, JUL 09 – Over 600 National Weather Service staff were cut under the Trump administration, raising concerns about federal capacity to manage increasingly frequent climate-driven disasters.
- On Wednesday, at a Senate commerce committee hearing in Washington, Sen. Ed Markey pressed Neil Jacobs on how proposed funding cuts to NOAA would weaken forecasting capabilities.
- Amid growing climate risks, staff cuts have hollowed out the National Weather Service’s forecasting capacity, and climate change is driving more frequent, severe weather events.
- The administration’s plan would close 10 NOAA labs, including Miami’s hurricane hunter facility, and cut funding for the river gauge flood prediction program.
- When agencies cut forecasting staff, forecasts weaken and experts warn these cuts will leave Americans less informed.
- Amid broader federal reshaping, the president is envisioning a dramatically scaled-down Federal Emergency Management Agency that would shift response costs to states, and the administration has revoked $3.6 billion in FEMA grants to communities.
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Trump is gutting weather science and reducing disaster response
In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say. Staff reductions, budget cuts and other changes made by the administration since January have already created holes at the National Weather Service, which forecasts and war…
The number of deaths from the flood disaster in Texas continues to rise - but US President Donald Trump rejects any co-indebtedness even though he fired weather experts in series who could have warned of the storm event.
For the flood disaster, cuts in the weather service by the American government were cited as a reason. However, the predictions were sufficient, the causes of the disaster lie elsewhere.
How NOAA cuts could affect you
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — State representatives are blaming National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service cuts as reasons why the Texas flooding tragedy occurred. NOAA is currently understaffed by 20-40% and the Trump administration plans to cut even more funding. Under the bill $200 million more would be taken away, totaling $2.2 billion dollars cut from their budget. This would cause NOAA to close all of thei…
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