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I’d be ok with looking to streamline NOAA, double check budgets etc, but just disbanding it no.

I need to trim my fingernails but I am not going to let a crazed axe murderer in my house to do so

Nothing about NOAA makes a dent in the federal deficit. You're thinking of entitlements (which are appropriated by Congress, a co-equal branch of government that makes laws (lest you forgot)), and defense spending.

I’m aware of the size of NOAA, it’s still tax dollars. If they were spending $10k that could be $8k it’s still tax dollars. That would apply to any federal agency.

It's will never be disbanded. The nation will always need an in-house weather service for the military advantage that provides.

It's also a critical part of the national air transport system -- nothing flies without a METAR -- not to mention maritime, agriculture, commerce, etc.

Some things are just reliable, public infrastructure like roads or electricity that society finances one way or another. Anyone aiming to damage public infrastructure is trying to end the country.

I don't think this administration even cares about America's military advantage. If they did, they wouldn't have started the term by casually insulting the sovereignty of two NATO allies.

This administration is a large group of people stripping the copper wire from our walls and stealing our catalytic converters, and they are able to do this because they won by appealing to all our worst impulses.

Democracy is the idea that the voters know what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard - H. L. Mencken

It’s a pretty perilous (and condescending) habit to believe that when voters side with you they’re exercising common sense and when they don’t they were tricked. It’s indicative of a lack of insight into other groups in society.

> when they don’t they were tricked.

I'm not saying they were tricked at all. They were promised an administration that would strip the country down to the studs and be hateful and vicious to the most vulnerable people in society, and that's what we're getting.

We'll see if they go full Yarvin and completely delete the Constitution, nobody voted for that.

The US' military advantage has nothing to do with NATO. Lets make that clear right now. NATO would be just a four letter acronym without the US military.

Never is a strong word to toss around with the current administration.

There's been a big push to make NOAA go away so that private companies like AccuWeather be the one everyone turns to for their data. AccuWeather has been pushing for this for a long time--even before Trump's first term. We'll see how big their donations are perceived by how gutted NOAA becomes. As for military, the Air Force has it's own weather teams as well. I'd assume others do as well.

NOAA is ripe for President Musk's axe if Uncle Trump says so

Yep, AccuWeather would love to get all of the NWS / NOAA assets and charge everyone to get a forecast.

Thank goodness that the UK and Canadian weather services have great forecasting capabilities, the public can turn to them for our weather needs.

Thank you for your service, President 3939382! It’s an honor to serve in your benevolent administration.

Your country thanks you.

You can double the NOAA budget and still not make any difference.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

Or you could halve it and cost society tens of billions in second order effects.

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