In just two weeks, Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, swept over at least half a dozen federal agencies with the same explosive, 24-hour energy and tactics he used to take over Twitter and Tesla. Dismiss workers while considering business hours, cut costs, waste and unnecessary things, fire workers and encourage workers to resign on a pay promise to reduce their labor.
Is NOAA next? Will Florida lose their hurricane predictions or will they have to pay for them?
Under Musk and his team of young aides, the advisory group that the administration calls the Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has pushed it up to highly sensitive agencies such as the Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. Treasury Department, and the General Services Agency. It has made very personal information and clean-up changes that Congressional Democrats and federal officials say were made without Congressional approval or obvious oversight.
On Saturday, the website of the US Organization for International Development (USAID), the country’s foreign aid agency, became dark, and the agency was demolished at a site that had moved under Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Thousands of employees have been notified that they will be placed on administrative leave. “We spent the weekend feeding USAID to Wood Chipper,” Musk posted Monday.
Musk, who gave $288 million to Trump’s campaign, says Doge’s goal is to reduce the federal government, eliminate federal programs and workers’ jobs, and cut regulations. He attacks these targets at fierce speed, boasting on his social media site X, previously Twitter.
“Most bureaucracy is working on weekends,” Musk posted on X.
According to the Guardian, Doge staff reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland on Tuesday afternoon.
What is NOAA?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a scientific regulator, uses a vast network of research programs, ships, satellites, science centers, laboratories, scientists and experts to collect and share the latest scientific data and analytical tools. , and is responsible for implementation. Predict the impact of climate and extreme weather. Data from NOAA and its agencies informs weather forecasting, fisheries management, coastal repair and marine commerce.
NOAA oversees the offices of the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Services, National Marine Services, National Environmental Satellites, Data and Information Services, Ocean and Atmospheric Research, and the Marine Aviation & NOAA Corps. The National Hurricane Centre is a division of NOAA/National Weather Service.
Will the Trump administration and Musk remove NOAA and the National Hurricane Center?
Although details have not been released about the plans for NOAA, Trump frequently dismisses climate science and the threat of climate change.
In his first term, Trump proposed cutting NOAA budget by 18%, cutting the agency’s weather and climate lab by 43%, and removing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement. The Trump administration has removed the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate change webpage and tackled the research on disregard or rejected, according to a whistleblower who spoke with the Guardian.
Now, Trump and his allies are vowing to remove climate change references from the federal government. On the first day of his presidency, Trump revoked 78 executive orders approved by former President Joe Biden, including efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and signed an executive order to leave the Paris climate agreement again. .
In his first week, Trump ordered the federal department to scrub references to topics that do not match his priorities, such as mentions of diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and climate change. Pages referring to climate change from the USDA, Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency have not been deleted or linked. This was reported by Fox News.
Project 2025 will aim directly for NOAA.
What does Project 2025 say about NOAA?
Project 2025 is a detailed conservative roadmap for Trump’s first 100 days in office, calling NOAA for a “climate warning,” and agents “recommended to be demolished, many of which are of the same functionality.” It is recommended that it be excluded, sent to other institutions, privatized or placed under the control of state and locality.”
In particular, Project 2025 proposes:
Split NOAA, reassigning ships and planes used by NOAA to other agencies, and currently free National Weather Services Data Transport NOS Survey Functions, along with the US Coast Guard and US Geological Survey, National Marine Fisheries Services, Fisheries The Mammal Protection Act, which reduces or removes regulations regarding the Marine Corps, and the Endangered Species Species Act, downsizes marine atmospheric labs and disbands most of its climate change research.
Does Project 2025 ask to close the National Hurricane Centre?
no. The project states that the department’s data “provides critical public safety and business and academic functions and is used internationally by forecasting agencies and scientists.”
However, the project calls for a review of all data from the National Hurricane Services and the National Environmental Satellite Services to be presented neutrally “without adjustments intended to support one of the climate discussions.” Masu.
Is Trump or Musk continuing to Project 2025?
It is unclear whether Trump or Musk agrees to the project’s recommendations.
Released last year by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, is not the official blueprint of the Trump administration, and the president denied any ties with it during his campaign. Of the project’s more than 38 creators, more than 30 were connected to the previous Trump administration. Several members of his new administration are one of the co-authors, and are linked to it, including Trump’s election for the administration and budget office.
Many policies have been enacted by Trump and Musk in the Miller over the past two weeks, but have not surpassed some of the proposals for Project 2025.
The multifaceted presidential transition project aims to support Republican presidents early in the new presidency, and is intended to “save the country from the radical left grip.”
As of early Wednesday afternoon, the Climate Change section of NOAA’s website and its standalone site Climate.gov is still visible.
Trump leads NOAA by nominating “Sharpy Gate” scientists
This week, Trump nominated Dr. Neil Jacobs to lead the NOAA.
Jacobs was Trump’s acting NOAA chief in 2019. Trump changed the Hurricane’s shock map with Sharpie, adding a rough black loop to Alabama, doubled his predictions about where Hurricane Dorian would go after meteorologists contradict him. Jacobs denounced them, leading to a report by General General of the Commerce on what became known as the Sharpy Gate.
On Tuesday, a coalition of officials opposed his appointment.
“Dr. Jacobs has relevant expertise and qualifications, but he has already proven that he is not worthy of leading NOAA by failing to maintain the scientific integrity of the institution.” said Dr. Rachel Critos, policy director for UCS’s Climate Energy Program.
What did Elon Musk do to the federal government?
So far, Musk and his team are reportedly:
Take over the Federal HR department, HR department, and bring it to bed and lock senior OPM employees from a part of the department’s data system, including a database that includes date of birth, Social Security number, ratings and home address. I did. Reuters will pay government workers wages and duration of service and will resign by February 6, and will provide eight months of pay by September if they resign from government layoff warnings. I sent a lot of emails to the staff. The email was titled “Fork in the Road,” and the same subject line mask used in a similar email by Twitter employees in 2022, when he bought the company. Software Engineer Thomas Shedd is recently appointed Director of Technology Transformation Services, and many executives at OPM look at the General Services Administration (GSA), a federal real estate broker, to help all 7,500 federals across the country. According to the Associated Press to begin termination of all leases in the office. The initiative is led by X employees with real estate backgrounds, GSA Insider told the Ministry of Finance and its payment system ap.pushed. Money for government contractors and subsidies recipients, etc. Musk operatives reportedly went through the payment system over the weekend, including “personal information on hundreds of millions of Americans, bank accounts and tax data, Social Security numbers and home addresses.” Ranking Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee. It oversaw and shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). , according to Reuters. Trump calls USAID “radical left madman.” The rest of the department is now under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and almost all USAID employees were told they would take administrative leave Friday with plans to return those returning to the US. The 18F was launched during the Obama administration, which modernized several federal software programs and helped create the IRS’ popular direct file projects.
“If we see this happening in Venezuela or Malawi and see billionaires seize money supply and government checkbooks, we’d call it a coup,” he said. He is the group’s executive director and former Senate senior economic policy advisor.
