While the agency and outside meteorologists say the NWS provided timely and accurate forecasts, the fatal flooding is generating fresh alarm about cuts and open positions. As the official death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas ticked above 100 on Monday, concerns over vacancies as well as job and potential funding cuts at the National Weather Service continued to […]
“Americans, you won’t have healthcare, Medicaid, public schools, nursing homes, rural hospitals, or SNAP,” said one critic. “But, you’ll get UFC fights on the White House lawn. America F-Yeah!” Critics of President Donald Trump’s announcement of a planned Ultimate Fighting Championship event on White House grounds to celebrate the United States Semiquincentennial next year took […]
A provision of the budget law that President Donald Trump signed last week will leave taxpayers to “pick up the tab for the private jet industry and billionaire high flyers.” The Republican budget measure that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will allow private jet owners to […]
“This facility echoes some of our nation’s darkest history,” said a civil liberties advocate. Civil liberties advocates expressed horror on Tuesday after President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a joint press event at a massive new detention facility in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The facility was first announced last month when Republican Florida […]