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Keeping state-of-the-art weather forecasting and preparedness outreach is a national responsibility, not, as Reagan’s 1981 statement would have it, a government annoyance.
The U.S. Commerce Department will review if National Weather Service vacancies affected its response to floods in Texas.
For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the ...
Concerns are rising over the accuracy of hurricane forecasts this year due to staffing and budget cuts at the National ...
President Donald Trump has indicated wanting to phase out FEMA and have emergency responses be handled by states. Though the ...
Nominee says he would work to undo the workforce cuts from the last few months, though the process could take time.
State and local officials are calling out federal forecasters amid deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country over the ...
Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.
The Trump administration pushed back Sunday on criticism of the National Weather Service's initial forecasting and its ...
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut hundreds of jobs as the National Weather Service earlier this year.
At the outset of the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Weather Service is critically understaffed in many locations across the country.