Some governors and mayors are concerned over how current or potential cuts to agencies will impact how the government can respond in the future to major weather events.

The agency saw $200 million in cuts in President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which compounded layoffs of newly hired employees and early retirements of career employees at the agency in February.

In response to concerns, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) said it is actively working to address staffing shortages.

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.

As Texans reel from the deadly flooding that hit the Guadalupe River, experts are raising concerns over how mass layoffs at federal weather agencies have put communities at risk, per Newsone. According to reports,

My fear is that we’re going to look back 25 years from now and say, ‘This is when the progress stopped,’” one weather expert said.

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The cuts are fueling concerns that NOAA's ability to deliver lifesaving services, such as weather forecasting, storm warnings, climate monitoring and fishery oversight, will be hampered.

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