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Russell T. Vought is "a right-wing absolute zealot"
-- Susie Wiles, Chief of Staff for President Donald J. Trump
Project 2025 and Russell Vought
- Attacks on US Science
- Attacks on US Knowledge Base
Over five decades of scientific research, data, programs and national security progress are being put at risk.
“The budget proposed by the White House for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is almost half what it was a year ago, and eliminates all funding for the agency's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the division that coordinates and conducts weather and climate research across the nation.”
Project 2025 and Trump attacks on atmospheric science, earth science, climate science, monitoring of weather events (hurricanes, flooding, agriculture forecasting...) are stark in their retrogressive cuts.
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Project 2025:
Page 675: NOAA "has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity.” As a result, NOAA “should be broken up and downsized.”
Project 2025 demands the agencies within NOAA to be vetted and scrubbed for any research that takes “sides” in the climate change debate, for example, reviewing the data of the National Hurricane Center and National Environmental Satellite Service to ensure it is “presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate” (p. 676)
Cut, chop, destroy is the goal. “Disband the preponderance of the climate-change research” of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, because “it is the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism” (p. 676)
“Ensure Appointees Agree with Administration Aims. Scientific agencies like NOAA are vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims if political appointees are not wholly in sync with Administration policy. Particular attention must be paid to appointments in this area.” (p. 677)
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Trump/Vought deliver a budget of terminations for climate research
- Programs in Earth science, atmospheric science, ocean science, environmental protection, renewable energy, health, and more are terminated
Many continue to ask 'Who is Russell Vought?' What is his role?
Russell T. Vought was the 42nd & is currently 44th Director of the US Office of Management and Budget.
He has a central role in shaping the Trump administration overall priorities, policies, budget, and direction of all federal agencies.
Vought launched the Center for Renewing America in 2021 after Trump was defeated for reelection in 2020.
He was a a principal author of Project 2025.
More Bkgrd: * https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term
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In its proposed 2026 budget just released (June 30, 2025),
NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs,
including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models
NOAA Under Attack, Trump Administration Cuts in the Announced 2026 Budget Are Deep and Extensive
The calamitous cuts include the elimination of all federally funded meteorological, oceanographic, and climate labs and non-profit cooperative research institutes across America. These world-class centers-of-excellence employ hundreds of the nation’s top weather and climate scientists and deploy key technology to help forecasters accurately predict the world’s most extreme weather. The history of many of the over two dozen labs and institutes slated for closure stretches back 50 to 75 years...
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Read more about the damage done by President Trump, Mr. Vought & regressive politics:
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