The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) could close all four of its Boulder laboratories and CU Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research In Environmental Sciences (CIRES) under a proposed 2026 budget. The proposed budget is $4.5 billion, some 30% smaller than 2025’s spending plan, and comes with a 17% reduction in total jobs. Four Boulder labs operate under that office at the David Skaggs Research Center: the Chemical Sciences Laboratory, the Global Monitoring Laboratory, the Global Systems Laboratory and the Physical Sciences Laboratory. NOAA hosts the National Weather Service and is central to research on climate change, making it a target of the Trump administration. CIRES employs more than 900 people in Boulder, according to the organization’s website.