Hundreds of federal employees, scientists and community members gathered Monday at Boulder’s U.S. Department of Commerce campus, where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is housed, to protest mass layoffs at NOAA and other federal agencies amid Trump administration funding cuts. The protest was organized by former Congressman David Skaggs, for whom the 405,000-square-foot NIST (National Institutes of Standards and Technology) and NOAA building is named. Credit: Kaylee Harter“We feel the loss here at NOAA, because it affects us personally, our friends and our neighbors,” he said. “Today, we stand with NOAA and the National Weather Service, but we also stand with public servants all across the country, the Forest Service, the Postal Service, and yes, even the Internal Revenue Service. “These reckless mass terminations and the administration's unilateral gutting of federal agencies are already causing deep harm to our country and to communities right here in Colorado,” the statement said.