Republicans have for a long time wanted to end free weather information and hand that job over to for-profit companies like AccuWeather[1]. Trump v1 nominated AccuWeather's CEO to run the organization[2]. Project 2025 calls for breaking up NOAA and commercializing it[3]. This is not some hidden agenda, and you don't have to speculate about their intentions. As is the case for everything these guys do, they are open and brazen about it.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/noaa-pro...

2: https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuwea...

3: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-pro...