Former television host Bill Nye the “Science Guy” suggested that the Department of Government Efficiency is performing “corruption” and targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with plans to replace its weather satellites with Elon Musk‘s Starlink satellites.
President Donald Trump announced mass layoffs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s premier centers for studying climate science. The announcement was the culmination of Trump’s longstanding campaign against climate science as a field.
Job losses at NOAA cover a spectrum of fisheries duties and could impact health, safety and economies on the Oregon coast.
It defies anything that I have in my political experience to understand how stupid this is,” former Rep. David Skaggs told The Denver Post.
Rally outside Silver Spring headquarters comes just days after Trump administration announced layoff of 650 NOAA workers nationwide.
Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired