> NOAA Research is still doing its work, but we won't be able to access it anymore? You are not thinking far ahead enough. This is just the first step. Step 1

> NOAA Research is still doing its work, but we won't be able to access it anymore? You are not thinking far ahead enough. This is just the first step. Step 1: these Amazon and Google cloud contracts are extraneous; let's cancel. The public can always find an alternate way of getting the research data. Step 2: the number of times such research data is accessed has drastically decreased, suggesting that the public has not found them useful; let's cancel the research projects. Step 3: these researchers aren't doing any research any more; they don't seem to have any work output; let's fire them for cause.