"As the best and the brightest were being fired at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by senseless and draconian ‘DOGE’ cuts earlier this year under Trump, with no reason given except for the need to cut a paltry amount of the government’s budget, experts warned repeatedly that the cuts would have deadly consequences during the storm season. And they have."

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted#Trump#DOGE#Texas #cuts#FEMA#NOAA, #NWS

2/2 'People are dying and more will die because of their recklessness, just like we saw during covid. And now millions won’t even have health insurance to deal with the consequences.'

#Trump#DOGE #cuts#FEMA#NOAA, #NWS#Texas #floods

The board is also concerned that the budget that Secretary of #State#MarcoRubio is requesting from #Congress for the next fiscal
year #cuts spending for the Bureau of #Educational & #Cultural Affairs, which includes the #Fulbright program, to $50 million from $691 million this fiscal year. [Holy crap!!! That’s insane]

#law#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy