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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

The National Weather Service is hiring to fill hundreds of predominantly entry-level positions, more than a year after losing about 15% of its staff due to sweeping job cuts ...

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When a tornado tore through central Kansas on April 13, emergency managers said their forecast read clear skies. Did DOGE cuts to the National Weather Service cause the data gap?

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-- Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 1:00 PM · Jul 6, 2026

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Firing hundreds of people for no particular reason will make it harder to recruit replacements.

#1 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-07-07 01:44 PM | Reply

"Firing hundreds of people for no particular reason"

Oh. They had their reasons.

Just that most of them were not legal ones.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-07 01:47 PM | Reply

Trump is following the Heritage Foundation manifesto.

DOGE knew what it was doing.

This is deliberate.

Privatizing safety.

#3 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-07-07 01:48 PM | Reply

This is how stinky drowned dozens in Texas.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-07 01:51 PM | Reply

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