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That's not how I read this at all: >National Weather Service Employees Organization >“The NWS leadership has been incapable of placing their budget priorities
by corey_moncure 9y ago
That's not how I read this at all:
>National Weather Service Employees Organization
>“The NWS leadership has been incapable of placing their budget priorities correctly,”
> “understaffing is not due to underfunding,”
> “unspent carry-over funds” in the tens of millions of dollars
- Spooky23 9y agoIn federal government budgeting dollars are allocated for specific programs or services. You might have a program, say climate change, that the administration doesn’t like because politics and refuses to perform work in, despite the wishes of Congress. You may have other programs like forecasting that have no money allocated at all. This is mismanagement by design. The GOP types want to outsource the NWS function and have been trying to do so for many years through the budget process. The senator from Pennsylvania tried to prohibit free release of weather data to make some rain for Accuweather, which is a PA company.
- tekjenitalor 9y agoWell if the NWS hadn't screwed the decision for prime on awips2 so badly they might have some of my sympathy. Bad decisions end up biting everyone down the road.