Drastic Cuts to our National Weather Service (NWS)
The Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget for NOAA would implement significant cuts, reducing the agency's funding by 27% (over $700 million) from current levels. Most notably, it aims to eliminate NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which performs and coordinates climate research, and would terminate all funding for climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes.
©2025 Richard Olsenius
