According to new reports from Verge and Axios, the White House is preparing to cancel rentals for key weather forecast offices, including the NOAA Weather and Climate Forecasting Center at University Park in Maryland. This is just the latest bad news for Americans who prefer accurate weather forecasts and do not die from severe storms.
According to Verge, the building’s lease includes the National Weather Service’s National Environmental Prediction Center, which provides forecasts for the Air Force, Navy and FAA. Of course, these organizations are organizations that rely on accurate weather forecasts to perform. The FAA cuts have attracted increasing attention to the increase in aviation accidents. Doge’s more slash tactics won’t make anyone safer.
There is some confusion as to whether NOAA leases are actually cut or just in the pipeline. However, this chaos is quite typical of what has happened in the past month, as Elon Musk’s governor has taken the chainsaw to the U.S. federal government. The contract has been cancelled, and thousands of workers lost their jobs due to President Donald Trump’s presidential mission Musk, cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget.
Trump and Musk insist that Duge is just cutting off “waste, fraud and abuse”, but the oligarchs have not yet presented any evidence of fraud in terms of the fraud they declared. In fact, Musk seems to have made a unilateral decision on the funding correspondingly, which is a completely illegal move, which is the scope of Congress, and the action has the actual power to spend money on behalf of the government.
According to The Verge, about 10% of NOAA employees have been fired, and the report shows that Doge is trying to eliminate 50% of the agency. It’s obviously a terrible idea if you want to make an accurate weather forecast, but it’s becoming clearer that Musk doesn’t care about the damage he does to Americans and the quality of our lives.
An anonymous NOAA employee who spoke with Axios described the cuts as a “nightmare scenario” and another worker told Verge: “You may not know all the work behind the scenes, but if those cuts continue, you will feel them at some point when a job is gone.”
Another building that can be cancelled is the Radar Operations Center in Norman, Oklahoma, which is operated by NOAA but works with the Department of Transportation and the Department of Defense to maintain weather radar. But it’s not like the FAA or the military needs radar, right?
