Posted on 02/04/2025 6:14:00 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency.
“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former Noaa official who is now a fellow at the University of New Hampshire. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”
Project 2025, written by several former Trump staffers, has called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to US prosperity” for its role in climate science.
Rosenberg noted it’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services.
He also argued there is no legal authority to abolish Noaa or reduce its budget, outside of reducing it through Congress.
“There’s no real transparency. They just show up wherever they want, do whatever they want. They’re following through on major budget cuts and major staffing cuts,” Rosenberg added. “I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
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Sell it.
Privatize it...............
Damn, is the Soi-Boi butt-hurt?
NOAA, along with NASA, is one of the perpetrators of the manmade catastrophic global warming scam. They obviously have too much time on their hands, and could get along with fewer employees.
NOAA actually does a pretty good job but I am sure there is some fat that can be cut.
What is it that agents of the government are so fond of telling private citizens? Something like, “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you don’t have anything to worry about”...?
Hah, I am sure they said “get out of my way”. LOL I would have at least said “get out of my way F heads”.
You use that word ‘incite.’
I don’t think it means what you think it means.
“Confidential information” at NOAA? Don’t the taxpayers fund NOAA? Then the information is ours.
Ronald Reagan would be proud of these efforts.
This cracks me up. I picture these nerdy genius dudes like some kind of version of The Big Bang Theory marching in as if they own the place.
Perfect image.
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Man since the beginning has the need to pervert to control.
I have no complaints about NOAA overall. I’m sure there are places where a good pair of scissors would be well applied. But not all government services should be privatized. I for one do not want to have to pay to get hurricane info.
I agree.
The climate is changing for these lefty bureaucrats...
Lol.
“do it and dare somebody to stop us.” Isn’t that what fjb and obama did for 12 years?
Keep cutting until the Debt Clock is running in reverse.
Connecting this to Project 2025. I’m confused and wonder how true all of this is.
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