Also, all these line items, whole climate and ocean research and observations cost taxpayers $740 million per year. For comparison, ICE already has budget of $10 billion per year and slated for +10% increase in FY26. So if you defund ICE for just one year, you can fund NOAA research and state-of-the-art monitoring for the next 14 years
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Just to dispel a little bit of fearmongering, the National Weather Service, who is responsible for weather forecast after significant pushback actually got their budget slightly increased compared to last year. So hurricane and severe weather warning will mostly be OK (discounting tons of people who got fired and retire early this spring). What is truly dire currently is the research division ("Ocean and Atmospheric Research", OAR) at NOAA slated for complete annihilation, which would results in thousands of actual scientists losing their jobs, massive lost of institutional knowledge and gaps/shutdown in long-term observations (e.g., CO2 levels at Mauna Loa).