President Trump’s first budget request is slated to come out later this spring, but agencies are receiving drafts from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) now — and the draft budget request for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) paints a dire picture as the agency is slated for a 25 percent cut.
Some of these cuts were foreshadowed by Project 2025, which paints NOAA as a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry.” Project 2025 is clear in its intent to halt independent government research on climate change and privatize the weather forecast data that Americans rely on to keep themselves safe.
However, it’s unclear why the administration is looking to change course from the policy on space safety created pursuant to a Space Policy Directive from the White House during Trump’s first term that the growing space industry relies on.
