Manifesto calls for drastic cuts to federal forecasting of severe storms and aid given to shattered towns and cities
With communities still reeling from Hurricane Helene, one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the US, further pain in the form of Hurricane Milton is about to hit Florida. Experts warn such disasters will be deepened if Donald Trump is elected and follows the policy plans of the controversial rightwing Project 2025 manifesto.
Under Project 2025, authored by numerous former Trump officials but disavowed by the former president himself, the federal forecasting of severe storms and aid given to shattered towns and cities would be drastically scaled back. Emergency management officials say the cuts would severely worsen the outcomes from a storm like Helene.
Project 2025 calls for “breaking up and downsizing” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), which it calls a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry”. The agency’s climate research is “harmful to future US prosperity” and should be disbanded, the document says.
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They also want to get rid of the National Weather Service and replace it with the private company AccuWeather, which has a terrible track record when it comes to predictions.
AccuWeather, which has a terrible track record when it comes to predictions.
Don’t you just love it when people name their companies sarcastically?
Would be like if Alpha Romeo was called PractiCar or NextDoor was called ChillNeighbors 😁
Every far right policy is designed to kill people. Health care? Gun control? Bodily autonomy? Environment? You name it. They’re the party of death.
