{"id":40232,"date":"2026-08-12T06:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=40232"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:35:53","slug":"julys-heat-made-history-trumps-cuts-could-leave-us-less-prepared-for-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=40232","title":{"rendered":"July\u2019s Heat Made History. Trump\u2019s Cuts Could Leave Us Less Prepared for What Comes Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">But NOAA relies on federal funding in order to keep historic records, observe weather patterns, and produce informed forecasts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The Trump Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/the-lasting-threat-of-trumps-cuts-to-noaa-and-nws-on-american-communities\/\" target=\"undefined\">reduced<\/a> NOAA\u2019s workforce in 2025, and subsequently proposed steep cuts to the agency\u2019s funding, hampering its ability to monitor weather conditions, analyze patterns, and provide forecasts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The National Weather Service (NWS), which operates under NOAA, lost roughly 600 employees\u2014about 15% of its workforce\u2014through layoffs, buyouts and retirements. It must now respond to increasingly severe weather events\u2014like hurricane season and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/07\/27\/us-wildfire-preparedness-level-5-what-that-means\/\" target=\"undefined\">wildfire season<\/a>\u2014with reduced resources. As a result, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/media\/notification\/pdf_2025\/pns25-08_kotzebue_ak_upper_air_suspension.pdf\" target=\"undefined\">announced<\/a> last year that it was scaling back the tools used to track weather patterns, such as weather balloons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The administration later proposed cutting NOAA\u2019s overall budget by $1.6 billion, or roughly 26%, compared with fiscal year 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cA leaner NOAA that focuses on core operational needs, eliminates unnecessary layers of bureaucracy, terminates nonessential grant programs, and ends activities that do not warrant a Federal role, will provide better value to the American public,\u201d its budget summary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-06\/NOAA%20FY26%20Congressional%20Justification.pdf?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"undefined\">stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But NOAA relies on federal funding in order to keep historic records, observe weather patterns, and produce informed forecasts. The Trump Administration reduced NOAA\u2019s workforce in 2025, and subsequently proposed steep cuts to the agency\u2019s funding, hampering its ability to monitor weather conditions, analyze patterns, and provide forecasts.\u00a0 The National Weather Service (NWS), which operates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.time.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blt788571ede165c59a\/6a7bc530017cc16477b3902f\/AP26182692807543.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}