As Congress begins talks surrounding the upcoming federal budget, a proposed 27% cut to the NOAA budget is raising alarms among weather experts and scientists.

In total, the plan would cut NOAA's full-time staff by 2,061 positions compared to fiscal year 2024, which is a reduction of 17 percent. "The FY 2026 budget eliminates all funding for climate ...

President Donald Trump nominated Neil Jacobs Jr. to lead the NOAA. His Senate confirmation hearing focused on the deaths of ...

Five former NWS directors in May 2025 published an open letter warning that the consequences of these proposed cuts could be ...

Barry and Chantel were short-lived tropical storms but their remnants caused killer flooding in Texas and North Carolina.

The Senate committee also protected the National Weather Service staff from mass layoffs. But a fight over the FBI has left ...

Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s staffing cuts to the ...

President Donald Trump met with victims' families and surveyed the damage of catastrophic floods that struck the state one ...

Even some cuts that don't directly impact the state could cause problems, he said. In March, the New York Times reported on a proposal to cut as many as 75% of the positions in the 1,540-person ...

The budget includes a 45% cut in service and a more than 20% fare hike. Beard arrived at the train station on Friday to run an errand. "I'm not the person who commutes every day," said Beard.