AMO WIN: NWS Staffing Partially Restored in First Step to Ensure Extreme Weather Safety
After months of Congressman Amo’s public pressure, the National Weather Service is hiring 450 frontline weather staff, reversing Trump’s dangerous DOGE cuts that hurt America’s weather readiness
PROVIDENCE, RI – TODAY, Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI) issued the following statement on the National Weather Service (NWS) receiving permission to hire 450 staff after President Donald Trump and the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” unilaterally and unnecessarily cut roughly 15% of the NWS workforce earlier this year.
“After months of applying pressure, speaking out, and calling on the Trump administration to investigate the impacts of National Weather Service staff cuts on America's weather readiness, I’m relieved to see that Trump has allowed the agency to begin hiring staff,” said Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI). “But this decision solves a problem of Trump’s creation — he shouldn’t have cut NWS staff in the first place. As we’ve seen across the country — from the deadly flooding in Texas to the water-filled New York subway — extreme weather is becoming more frequent and severe because of climate change. As Ranking Member of the House Science Subcommittee on the Environment, I’m going to keep holding the President and this administration accountable and do everything in my power to stop them from cutting our weather safety enterprise and recklessly endangering Rhode Islanders’ lives.”
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