The people demanded better: a more resilient New Orleans, a better hurricane forecast, and a restored Mississippi River Delta. Now, it appears that the significant progress made in improving hurricane forecasts will also stop, because of presidential actions. And so the 2017 Act also required that every one of the nation’s 122 National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices have a designated Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM). DOGE cuts staff at the National Weather ServicePolicies instituted by the “Department of Government Efficiency” decimated the already-bare staffing at local Weather Forecast Offices, where for at least 10 years, there had been a concerted effort at recruitment. This is why, at least so far, there has been bipartisan and bicameral opposition to the deepest National Weather Service cuts proposed by the administration.