so will they defund NOAA and the NWS now?

Here are the real reasons: 1. they are wrongly assuming correlation = causation while somehow ignoring the soft landing orchestrated under the Biden administration. And somehow ignoring our relative performance to the rest of the world. 2. a cultural repudiation

Poisonous.

Just like 2016.

A financially illiterate public breeds perfect American consumers and a MAGA base.