DOGE staffers enter NOAA headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats(theguardian.com)
theguardian.com
DOGE staffers enter NOAA headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters
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My submission regarding the break up of noaa was flagged 6month ago... didn't age well..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40988752
I guess it was all spelled out a while ago
What else is on Project 2025 that hasn’t happened yet?
What else is on Project 2025 that hasn’t happened yet?
Pretty sure AccuWeather would be the main beneficiary here. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dutie...
After WWII, a lot of talent came from Europe to the US, and the US benefited greatly. With the current trend, I could see a lot of unemployed government scientists, and I wouldn't see them going to work for some of these large US companies in the news. So, I wonder if the US will experience a reverse brain drain, with talent going to other countries.
Not only after WWII, but before. The Nazis made many people flee to the US, e.g. Einstein fled to the US in 1933. For Germany in particular there was a brain drain (and then mass killing of Jews) that devastated German intelligentsia and we never recovered from, look at Nobel Prize laureates before and after the Nazis, artists before and after the Nazis, and on and on goes the list.
It just keeps getting worse and worse.
> Project 2025, written by several former Trump staffers, has called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to US prosperity” for its role in climate science.
> He also argued there is no legal authority to abolish Noaa or reduce its budget, outside of reducing it through Congress.
> “There’s no real transparency. They just show up wherever they want, do whatever they want. They’re following through on major budget cuts and major staffing cuts,” Rosenberg added. “I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”