{"id":1048541,"date":"2024-10-04T14:54:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048541"},"modified":"2024-10-04T14:54:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:54:52","slug":"trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-ends-nws-free-weather-forecasting-cuts-assistance-for-hurricane-victims-and-imperils-femas-ability-to-provide-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-ends-nws-free-weather-forecasting-cuts-assistance-for-hurricane-victims-and-imperils-femas-ability-to-provide-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Vance Project 2025 Agenda Ends NWS Free Weather Forecasting, Cuts Assistance for Hurricane Victims, and Imperils FEMA\u2019s Ability To Provide Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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F<\/em>ormer Trump Official Turned Project 2025 Architect Ken Cuccinelli Even Called to Shrink FEMA, Threatening Its Ability To Provide Aid<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As hurricane season ramps up and Project 2025 threatens to gut the NOAA, eliminate the NWS\u2019 federal weather forecasting, and slash FEMA aid for natural disaster response, <\/em>DNC National Press Secretary Emilia Rowland released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump and his Project 2025 cronies\u2019 plans are quite literally a matter of life and death \u2014 Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda contains plans to end federal weather forecasting at the National Weather Service, eliminate<\/a> disaster loans for families and small businesses rebuilding after storms, cut assistance<\/a> for hurricane victims, and slash FEMA aid for natural disaster response<\/a> as we know it, leaving communities to deal with the catastrophic consequences of hurricanes on their own. This is nothing new for Trump \u2014 as president, he botched hurricane responses, spread outlandish misinformation about dangerous and extreme weather events, and personally blocked disaster-stricken areas from receiving lifesaving aid. Americans deserve a leader who understands the critical role that NOAA and the federal government play in supporting communities through their recovery from traumatic weather events, and Donald Trump has proven time and again that he\u2019s not up to the task.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would gut the NOAA, including eliminating federal weather forecasting, while restricting FEMA\u2019s ability to deliver aid after disasters \u2013 even <\/strong>eliminating<\/strong><\/a> disaster loans for families and small businesses rebuilding after storms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Project 2025\u2019s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 674-5:<\/a> \u201cThis industry\u2019s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025\u2019s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 675:<\/a> \u201cFocus the NWS on Commercial Operations<\/strong>. Each day, Americans rely on weather forecasts and warnings provided by local radio stations and colleges that are produced not by the NWS, but by private companies such as AccuWeather.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025\u2019s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 664<\/a>: \u201cThe National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated,<\/strong> sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for American Progress<\/a>: \u201cRelatedly, in its section on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Project 2025 proposes the agency increase the threshold for disaster declarations, thereby making it more difficult for states and localities\u2014and, by extension, the families and businesses that call them home\u2014to qualify for federal aid after disaster strikes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven still, Project 2025\u2014a far-right road map that would gut the country\u2019s nearly 250-year-old system of checks and balances\u2014proposes, on page 750, an \u2018end to SBA direct lending,\u2019 the only instance of which is the disaster loan program. Project 2025 suggests privatization as one potential solution and claims, without evidence, that loan availability \u2018reduces individuals\u2019 incentives to purchase disaster-related insurance.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Trump official and Project 2025 architect Ken Cuccinelli has called to shrink FEMA, threatening its ability to help communities deal with the fallout of natural disasters and eliminate disaster preparedness grants.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken Cuccinelli, former Trump official and Project 2025 author<\/a>: \u201cOn shrinking FEMA\u2026 people think of it as a first responder, it\u2019s not a first responder\u2026 If we focus them [FEMA] more narrowly when they are deployed, they will do a better job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verify<\/a>: \u201cProject 2025 also recommends replacing the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) with private insurance and eliminating preparedness grants for states, localities and special-interest groups. Cuccinelli wrote the plan would incentivize state and local governments to be more proactive in preparing for disasters.  Cuccinelli wrote that FEMA employees in Washington, D.C., should not determine how \u2018billions of federal tax dollars\u2019 are allocated for local needs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PolitiFact<\/a>: \u201cProject 2025 outlines changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including reducing the federal government\u2019s share of local disaster relief contributions from 75% to 25%, privatizing flood insurance, terminating FEMA\u2019s grants and raising the per capita threshold for providing FEMA public assistance. Experts told PolitiFact the changes, if adopted, would reduce FEMA\u2019s support to state and local governments and hinder disaster response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025\u2019s plans to gut NOAA and eliminate the National Weather Service\u2019s federal weather forecasting could lead to disastrous impacts, exposing communities to greater storm risks as they are denied critical life-saving forecasts. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capital B News<\/a>: \u201cProject 2025\u2019s Aim to Gut NOAA May Make Storms Like Helene Even More Devastating\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018What NOAA, and the National Weather Service, do is really lifesaving in terms of providing data and making it freely accessible to vulnerable communities,\u2019 said Rachel Cleetus, policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. \u2018Project 2025 is trying to remove these public health safeguards, and it is going to have a disproportionate effect on our communities that have a greater exposure to these kinds of environmental risks.\u2019<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Weather Service<\/a>: \u201cNOAA\u2019s National Weather Service forecasts, warnings, and the associated emergency responses result in a $3 billion savings in a typical hurricane season. Two-thirds of this savings, $2 billion, is attributed to the reduction in hurricane related deaths, and one-third of this savings, $1 billion, is attributed to a reduction in property-related damage because of preparedness actions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cThe National Hurricane Center is the lead federal agency for forecasting and tracking tropical weather, which Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, said is \u2018critical to coordinating evacuations and emergency response.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOAA<\/a>: \u201cNOAA has a long history of leading hurricane observing, research, and forecasting. Advancements in atmospheric and aircraft operations have led to considerable improvements in forecasting hurricane tracks, providing critical information on where and when a storm will make landfall\u2026NOAA uses a suite of tools and observing platforms to monitor ocean features that play a role in hurricane intensification to improve models and forecasts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Trump Official Turned Project 2025 Architect Ken Cuccinelli Even Called to Shrink FEMA, Threatening Its Ability To Provide Aid As hurricane season ramps up and Project 2025 threatens to gut the NOAA, eliminate the NWS\u2019 federal weather forecasting, and slash FEMA aid for natural disaster response, DNC National Press Secretary Emilia Rowland released the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump-Vance Project 2025 Agenda Ends NWS Free Weather Forecasting, Cuts Assistance for Hurricane Victims, and Imperils FEMA\u2019s Ability To Provide Aid - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-ends-nws-free-weather-forecasting-cuts-assistance-for-hurricane-victims-and-imperils-femas-ability-to-provide-aid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-04T18:54:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-ends-nws-free-weather-forecasting-cuts-assistance-for-hurricane-victims-and-imperils-femas-ability-to-provide-aid\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-ends-nws-free-weather-forecasting-cuts-assistance-for-hurricane-victims-and-imperils-femas-ability-to-provide-aid\/\",\"name\":\"Trump-Vance Project 2025 Agenda Ends NWS Free Weather Forecasting, Cuts Assistance for Hurricane Victims, and Imperils FEMA\u2019s Ability To Provide Aid - 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