Trump administration officials recommend the cancellation of the Scientific Research Department of the National Oceanic and Air Country Administration, according to the internal documents obtained by the New York Times and many people who have knowledge of the situation.
The proposal of the management and budget office will cancel the ocean research and atmosphere in NOAA, one of the world’s first Earth science research centers.
The allocation of the budget is slightly more than 170 million dollars, a decrease of about 485 million dollars in 2024, which would vary as early warning systems for natural disasters, scientific education for students in kindergarten during high school, and the Arctic study, where temperatures have increased by four times the rest of the planet over the past four decades.
“On this financing level, oar is eliminated as a line office,” the proposal says.
Programs that retained funding, including research in hurricane warnings and ocean acids, will be transferred to the national weather offices and national ocean services offices.
The outline of the 2026 budget race, which will need to be approved by Congress, indicates “major discounts in education, grants, research and climate -related programs within NOAA” and comes after dismantling other agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the United States Agency for International Development, and canceling climate agreements from climate.
Under the proposal, the total budget of the Ministry of Commerce will be approximately $ 7.7 billion, or more than $ 2.5 billion of 2025 levels. According to the document, the budget will further re -focus activities with the Trump administration agenda, including imposing trade laws and collecting scientific notes such as ocean data and weather to support prediction.
“The hostility of this administration towards research and the rejection of climate science will have a result of spoiling the capabilities of the weather that this plan claims to preserve,” said actor Zoe Lovjran, the chief democratic of the House of Representatives Sciences Committee, said in a statement sent via e -mail.
NOAA, which takes more than half of the budget of the Ministry of Commerce, will receive slightly more than $ 4.4 billion, with a reduction of $ 1.6 billion from 2025.
Rick Spinrad, who led Nawa during the era of President Joseph R. said. Biden Junior: “This is not surprising, but it is very annoying.”
This includes reducing the budget for national marine fish fisheries by a third. The office will be divided from NOAA and moved to fish and wildlife service in the Ministry of Interior. Grants that are funded and habitat will be eliminated.
The financing of the national ocean service, a branch from Nawa, will be reduced to half. Programs such as the national centers of coastal ocean sciences will not be funded, and it is an office within the service of the ocean that is studying coral reefs, pollution, the effect of climate change and the rise in sea level on coastal societies.
The national environmental information centers, which archive climate data, will lose a quarter of their financing.
The proposal will also change the satellite and space programs in NOAA.
It would destroy the Space Trade Office and transfer the Space Weather Prediction Center to the Ministry of Internal Security. A program called the traffic coordination system for the area that was appointed to take over the monitoring of satellite movement from the Ministry of Defense, which is a type of traffic police for outer space, which will lose funding. The corridor malfunction suggests the presence of this work by the private sector.
The size of the satellite program that provides weather and modeling data will be reduced. The long -term relationship that helps NOAA to obtain satellites will also be completed through NASA.
Dr. Spinrad said that the possibility of this budget, as proposed by the White House, would be launched in Congress. “I don’t think it will meet the audit in Congress.”
The corridor is part of the federal budget, according to the document, which includes “the elimination of the federal government’s support for the awakening ideology.”
Project 2025, a document used as a plan to reform the federal government within the framework of the Trump administration, included a goal to dismantle NOAA and reduce its research arm.
“This raises the question. Does the Trump administration intentionally destroy our ability to predict weather as an excuse to implement the proposal of a dangerous project 2025 to privatize the weather service?” Lady Lovgrin said in a statement.
The 2025 project, published by the Heritage Corporation, which is the Organization of Conservative Policy Research, was called Noaa Research as “the source of most of the climate anxiety in Noaa” and said, “Its large number of research must be resolved.”
“The matter will return to the United States to the fifties of the last century in the technical and scientific skill,” said Craig Maccine, the chief scientist in NOAA under the first presidency of Trump’s presidency and President of Biden, from the proposed budget.
The agency has until noon on April 15 to resume the proposal. He has until April 24 to make plans for many reforms that congress suggest, even before the proposal is addressed by Congress.
On Thursday, the officials of the observation government who were separated in February, then a judge, received an email from the Ministry of Commerce that fired them again after the decision was reflected by the Supreme Court. The alleged reduction in the strength plan can reduce an additional 20 percent of the workforce in the coming weeks.