Project 2025 called for downsizing the weather service and have them focus on just data gathering and it should "fully commercialize its forecasting operations".

https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeade...

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counters an hour ago | parent | next [-]

And that literally isn't happening.

	▲	vel0city 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of the recommendations for NOAA cuts in Project 2025 have been happening, so it's probably more of a "hasn't happened yet" kind of thing. There's little reason to believe that isn't still the goal.

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groundzeros2015 6 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a conspiracy theory.

	▲	vel0city 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How so? They've already implemented over half of the policies suggested in it. https://www.project2025.observer/en As mentioned they've already implemented many of the recommendations related to NOAA in the document. If anything they've gone even further in many of the cuts as they've cut the budgets so much a lot of balloon launches haven't happened vastly reducing the ground truth needed to keep models and forecasts accurate.