The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’
The layoffs, criticized as “short-sighted,” reportedly include meteorologists who did crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.
Elon Musk’s DOGE homes in on new target, slashing hundreds of jobs - The cuts will ‘endanger American lives,’ lawmaker says
Leaders at a key US weather and science agency are compiling a list of employees who didn’t respond to an email asking them to explain what they did last week, an infraction that both President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk have said put the workers’ jobs at risk.
Hundreds of weather forecasters and other employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were axed by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), climate experts and lawmakers told the Associated Press Thursday night.
NEW YORK — Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, sparking confusion across key agencies as billionaire Elon Musk ... the National Weather Service, the ...