{"id":23556,"date":"2025-03-08T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23556"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T19:24:25","slug":"more-noaa-employees-may-be-let-go-making-20-of-staff-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23556","title":{"rendered":"More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation\u2019s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that it would be unable to issue its lifesaving forecasts as hurricane and disaster season approaches.<\/p>\n

The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned<\/a> or been laid off<\/a> in recent weeks. The moves has alarmed scientists, meteorologists and others at the agency, which includes the National Weather Service. Some activities, including the launching of weather balloons, have already been suspended because of staffing shortages.<\/p>\n

Together, the reductions would represent nearly 20 percent of NOAA\u2019s approximately 13,000-member work force.<\/p>\n

Managers within NOAA have been told to draw up proposals for layoffs and reorganizations to trim the agency\u2019s staff by at least 1,000 people, according to eight people who requested anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorized to discuss the plans publicly. The effort is part of the \u201creductions in force\u201d that President Trump required as part of an executive order last month, as he and the billionaire Elon Musk make rapid, large-scale cuts to the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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NOAA managers have been asked to complete their proposals by Tuesday, one of the people said. The proposals are likely to involve eliminating some of the agency\u2019s functions, though managers have received little guidance about which programs to prioritize for cutting.<\/p>\n

Representatives for NOAA didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The recent employee departures have already affected NOAA\u2019s operations in many realms: predicting hurricanes and tornadoes, overseeing fisheries and endangered species, monitoring the changes that humans are bringing about to Earth\u2019s climate and ecosystems. <\/p>\n

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation\u2019s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that it would be unable to issue its lifesaving forecasts as hurricane and disaster season approaches.The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned or been laid off in recent weeks. The moves has alarmed scientists, meteorologists and others at the agency, which includes the National Weather Service. Some activities, including the launching of weather balloons, have already been suspended because of staffing shortages.Together, the reductions would represent nearly 20 percent of NOAA\u2019s approximately 13,000-member work force.Managers within NOAA have been told to draw up proposals for layoffs and reorganizations to trim the agency\u2019s staff by at least 1,000 people, according to eight people who requested anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorized to discuss the plans publicly. The effort is part of the \u201creductions in force\u201d that President Trump required as part of an executive order last month, as he and the billionaire Elon Musk make rapid, large-scale cuts to the federal bureaucracy.NOAA managers have been asked to complete their proposals by Tuesday, one of the people said. The proposals are likely to involve eliminating some of the agency\u2019s functions, though managers have received little guidance about which programs to prioritize for cutting.Representatives for NOAA didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.The recent employee departures have already affected NOAA\u2019s operations in many realms: predicting hurricanes and tornadoes, overseeing fisheries and endangered species, monitoring the changes that humans are bringing about to Earth\u2019s climate and ecosystems. We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23558,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23559,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions\/23559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}