Hurricane season is first test of Trump's reshaped weather agencies

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Hurricane season is first test of Trump's reshaped weather agencies

President Donald Trump’s slimming down of the federal government is having ripple effects on how the United States’s weather agencies operate ahead of hurricane season. In Trump’s second term, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has faced budget cuts and staffing reductions, while the National Weather Service has dealt with personnel shortages. A budget blueprint for 2026 released by the president earlier this month would cut NOAA’s spending by over 20%.The cuts primarily affect the forecasting agency’s research arm, which the administration argues is “not aligned with Administration policy-ending ‘Green New Deal’ initiatives.”But David Stensrud, the president of the American Meteorological ..