The article leaves out that members of one political party have proposed eliminating the NOAA entirely https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/07/22/project-20...
E.g., the scientists at the FDA who check the science on safety and effectiveness when processing approvals for new drugs would be political appointees who were vetted for loyalty to the President.
I don't think most people realize how much free value they get out of NOAA weather predictions.
Rick Santorum (a former conservative luminary) was pushing for a law that would prohibit making weather data available to the public, but would make it available to companies like Accuweather for free.
The brother of the Accuweather founder was Trump’s appointee to run the weather service.
It’s on of those things that illustrates that no public resource is safe from graft.