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Funding for many of NOAA’s programs could plummet in 2025,

and the agency already suffers from occasional telecommunications breakdowns, including a recent alert-system outage amid flooding in the Midwest.

It is also subject to political pressures: In 2019, the agency backed then-President Trump’s false claim
(accompanied by a seemingly Sharpie-altered map)
that Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama

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Privatizing the weather is not a new conservative aim.

Nearly two decades ago, when the National Weather Service updated its website to be more user-friendly,
#Barry #Myers, then executive vice president of #AccuWeather, complained to the press that
“we work very hard every day competing with other companies, and we also have to compete with the government.”

In 2005, after meeting with a representative from AccuWeather, then-Senator #Rick #Santorum introduced a bill calling for the NWS to cease competition with the private sector, and reserve its forecasts for commercial providers.

The bill never made it out of committee. But in 2017, #Trump picked #Myers to lead NOAA.

(Myers withdrew his nomination after waiting two years for Senate confirmation.)

On Tuesday, #Johnson & #Johnson became the latest drugmaker to take the Biden administration to federal court in an attempt to put a #halt to the #drug #pricing #program. Three other drug companies — #Merck, #Bristol #Myers #Squibb and #Astellas #Pharma — have filed their own lawsuits, as have the industry’s main trade group and the U.S. #Chamber of #Commerce.

The suits make similar and overlapping claims that the drug pricing provisions are #unconstitutional. They are scattered in federal courts around the country — a tactic that experts say gives the industry a better chance of obtaining #conflicting #rulings that will put the legal challenges on a fast track to a business-friendly #Supreme #Court.

nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/poli

The New York TimesDrugmakers Throw ‘Kitchen Sink’ to Halt Medicare Price NegotiationsBy Sheryl Gay Stolberg