USAID approach to NOAA
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Anonymous
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/sep/26/jared-moskowitz/what-does-project-2025-say-about-the-national-weat/ |
Anonymous
Also weather radars every weather app uses. I am surprised Elon isn't eyeing it for the "acquisition"  given starlink and sat tech is his field too.. But it looks like they focus on other priorities which will keep their hands full. So far they likely just want other agencies to "downsize" themselves by means of RTO and package offers to the federal employees.
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Anonymous
This is one of the many opinion articles "summarizing" and "interpreting" stuff. I want to see the proof in the original document. I am taking the answer to my first question is no. |
Anonymous
| USAID is targeted for very different reasons than just cost cutting. Can anyone verify if tax spend on USAID funding so vastly exceeds all the other agencies? I thought HHS was the one most heavily funded.. |
Anonymous
| I believe that they aren't trying to kill NOAA, but instead move it to other agencies that are better aligned with it. Thus perhaps reducing admin or redundant positions. There are definitely economies of scale when reorging. |
Anonymous
That's possible and will likely happen to every agency. They are doing a major "re-org" and treating Fed like a private corporation undergoing merge/acquisition, optimizing and having new upper level execs implement their whims. This is what all of us working in private sector are very familiar with and none of this is shocking. |
Anonymous
Pg 674, dumbass! Try and use Google yourself. It's not that hard!! |
Anonymous
This is the problem with MAGA. You don't actually want to do the reading yourself, but you're fine taking the "opinion" and "summarization" of other lunatics that will drive the US to a total state of despair. |
Anonymous
Ding ding ding |
Anonymous
This is OT, but since you asked - USAID IG was investigating Starlink in Ukraine https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365 |
Anonymous
NP in the private sector with fed spouse and it's not really the same, this whole thing is pretty chaotic. You have this buyout offer that expires on Thursday and the details are still rolling out. Rather than identifying certain functions to get rid of in a thoughtful manner they are just trying to cut headcount without regard to function. Could this have been done in a thoughtful way? Absolutely but it's not being handled that way. |
Anonymous
NP and it's literally in a section titled "break up NOAA." "NOAA today boasts that it is a provider of environmental information services, a provider of environmental stewardship services, and a leader in applied scientific research. Each of these functions could be provided commercially, likely at lower cost and higher quality." |
Anonymous
Name the company so we can avoid it. |
Anonymous
If you were serious about cost-cutting, USAID would be the last place you'd look, not the first. It's less than 0.01% of the federal budget. According to Treasury's website below, Social Security is about 21% of the budget. The national defense is about 15% (although some funds are missing from that estimate). "Health" is about 14%. Net interest alone is about 13%. Etc. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/#spending-categories Now... why WOULD someone look at USAID? I'm not a USAID or foreign affairs expert but... Think about who, around the world, opposes it. By the way, one of its top recipients now is Ukraine humanitarian aid. |
Anonymous
I am not MAGA, and this doesn't mean I have to be buying into the project 2025 hysteria either. |