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Neil Jacobs, tapped to lead NOAA, called for sharper forecasting tools and clearer public alerts, just days after flooding in ...
The agency saw $200 million in cuts in President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which compounded layoffs of newly hired ...
Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives.
For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the ...
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut hundreds of jobs as the National Weather Service earlier this year.
This is the second time the Texas senator has been caught vacationing while disaster strikes his state; Cruz fled to Cancun amid a winter storm in 2021 that left millions of Texans without power for ...
Former NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad said an NWS vacancy could have been why some people didn't receive flood warnings.
Retired federal scientists warn Trump administration's proposed NOAA budget cuts could be costly and harm forecast accuracy.
The Trump administration denies the hundreds of reductions to the National Weather Service workforce had any effect on ...
At a news conference on Friday, local officials claimed that NWS forecasts in the days leading up to the floods were inaccurate. On Saturday, Ron Filipkowski, the editor in chief ...