Posted on 07/13/2025 11:52:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities.
In an effort to shrink the federal government, President 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 warns of dangerous weather.
Mr. Trump’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year would close 10 laboratories run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that research the ways a warming planet is changing weather, among other things. That work is essential to more accurately predicting life-threatening hazards. Among the shuttered labs would be one in Miami that sends teams of “hurricane hunters” to fly into storms to collect critical data. The proposed budget would also make major cuts to a federal program that uses river gauges to predict floods.
The president is also envisioning a dramatically scaled-down Federal Emergency Management Agency that would shift the costs of disaster response and recovery from the federal government to the states. The administration has already revoked $3.6 billion in grants from FEMA to hundreds of communities around the country, which were to be used to help these areas protect against hurricanes, wildfires and other catastrophes. About 10 percent of the agency’s staff members have left since January, including senior leaders with decades of experience, and another 20 percent are expected to be gone by the end of this year.
The White House and agency leaders say they are making much-needed changes to bloated bureaucracies that no longer serve the American public well.
FEMA, for one, “has been slow to respond...
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We know the science. Thanks.
Here's a hint: Don't start your article with a lie. It reduces your credibility below zero.
“It took four woke chicks to write this garbage”
And four frumpy ones at that, perpetual chips on their shoulder.
Yes, NYT, and Donald Trump is also causing the sun to get hotter and is responsible for earthquakes and tsunamis.
This is obviously trying to ride on the Texas tragedy.
It should be observed the the key government action related to this Texas tragedy occurred in 2011, not by the president or any partisan politician, but by a nobody in the FEMA swamp.
Noem is correct. FEMA needs a complete overhaul.
It should also be noted that decisions of individuals and the private sector may use government information... but they should never unilaterally trust that information.
We are each responsible for our own decisions and actions. Adults in charge of minors are responsible for their actions. It is not the job of the individual or private group to blindly depend on the government or politicians.
Liberal White Women
So it isn’t those ignorant Mexicans who still go to church and pray to God?
Once again, the NYT represents an unnecessary denuding of the nation’s forests. Check the facts out. The local office called in everyone well before the storm hit and radio and TV had warnings issued over 12 hours before the storm. Local weather service people did all they could with more than the normal complement of people to warn and update residents in the area. Just another effort by the NYT to blame Trump for something that didn’t even happen. While they made it front page news, two weeks from now they will issue a retraction when it’s proven that they lied, but the retraction will be buried in the used furniture ads.
- Lisa Friedman: shitty Streisand helmet-head (and almost as old) circa 1975, BA, Columbia, "Poets and Writers, New Dramatists, as well as countless writing workshops."; unfinished PhD Journalistism, UMaryland.
- Maxine Joselow: a man's appropriated name, and the face to match; BA, Brown University, "honors in nonfiction writing and editor-in-chief and vice president of The Brown Daily Herald".
- Coral Davenport: more cleft in her chin than Clint Eastwood, she could cut cheese with that manchin; BA, Smith College, English Literaturelolololol.
- Megan Mineiro: semi-hawtness ruined by a hogwart or maybe an oral herpes simplex virus infection under her lower lip, try some Zovirax geebus; BA, UCal Santa Barbara, double major "Global Studies" and "Middle East Studies" lofl "writer/editor for The Daily Nexus student newspaper".
Ladies, a couple of thoughts:
RE: How much money does the NYT get from the CCP?
If we have to ask then the Communist Chinese can’t afford it.
But they can.
Bank of America teller: “Another transfer of yuans to convert to US Dollars? You journalists are busy. 💰💰💰💰
more authors ....more lies
“As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather...” LOL
I don’t believe I ever said that “ignorant Mexicans who still go to church and pray to God” were the greatest threat. If they stayed in Mexico, they wouldn’t be any kind of threat at all.
A mindset that allows them full access to invade and get unlimited benefits in a welfare state they don’t contribute to is indeed a threat, however. And Liberal White Women (as well as men) who encourage that ARE a threat.
If Liberal White Women do go to “church” and “pray to God”, it generally isn’t a church of God or a God Christians might pray to.
President Trump is gutting Federal support for the Globull Warming, Globull Cooling, Climate Change, Climate Crisis Hoax.
There, fixed it.
Oh, no. Not “weather science”.
We the people wish they would gut the Newyork slimes from spreading hate and lies. Let’s all together now. wish wish wish wish wish wish wish.
Is he really, or is that just fake news?
Democrats and their tools are like ghouls, like vultures. They have no shame in using the dead for their political agendas to spread hate and LIES on OUR DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT. sick and twisted human beings in my book.
You're an intelligent person.
What do you think?
On the chopping block would be the agency’s entire scientific research division, one of the world’s premier weather and climate research centers, preventing the creation of new weather forecasting technologies.
Journo classes doesn't teach about dangling participles now?
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