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Law Would Make Most National Weather Service Workers Hard to Fire
A bill introduced Friday would classify forecasters and other staff as critical public safety roles. It comes after the ...
Sen. Moran tries to protect NWS meteorologists from federal hiring freezes
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran from Kansas has introduced legislation to exempt National Weather Service meteorologists from federal ...
A crucial NWS office, battered by cuts, is trying to put on a brave face as tornado season peaks
A congressional tour of the National Weather Service Quad Cities forecasting office revealed a skeleton crew trying to keep ...
Official overseeing the National Hurricane Center testified to Congress it’s fully staffed—it’s not
The National Hurricane Center is “fully staffed” and any suggestion that the Trump administration fired meteorologists at the ...
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Senator Trying To Keep NWS Staffed
Additionally, this legislation requires the Secretary of Commerce to submit a report after one year of enactment on staffing ...
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Sens. Moran, Peters Introduce Legislation to Exempt National Weather Service Meteorologists from Federal Hiring Freezes
U.S. Senators Jerry Moran and Gary Peters introduced the Federal Operational Resilience in Emergency Conditions and Storm ...
Big Beautiful Bill fight deepens: Trump threatens Musk over federal contracts, subsidies
Why is Elon Musky trashing the legislation demanded by President Donald Trump and ushered to a razor-thin approval margin in the U.S. House?
With hurricane season underway, Gulf Coast worries FEMA, Weather Service aren’t ready
With hurricane season officially underway, worries are mounting around whether President Trump’s cuts to the federal government have endangered the nation’s disaster response.The concern is ...