The Trump administration pushed back Sunday on criticism of the National Weather Service's initial forecasting and its staffing levels ahead Central Texas' catastrophic flooding. The big picture: The ...

After the catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas on July 4, 2025, users online claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Nominee says he would work to undo the workforce cuts from the last few months, though the process could take time.

Lawmakers from both parties have so far rejected steep cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas ...

Neil Jacobs, Trump’s pick to head NOAA who is on the path to confirmation, was the acting NOAA administrator at the time. For ...

President Trump's nominee to lead the agency that includes the National Weather Service said Wednesday it did a "great job" in Texas, but sees ways to improve forecasting technology and communicating ...

Neil Jacobs stressed a desire to see the more than 120 Weather Service forecast offices across the country be fully staffed.

Two top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials who played a role in the high-profile “Sharpiegate” ...

Now Neil Jacobs, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees NWS, says that he’ll make “staffing the Weather Service offices a top priority ...

For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the ...

Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.