DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It

Written By Ross Shales

"Perhaps no other federal entity facilitates greater economic and commercial activity than NOAA and its data sources," Frank Nutter, former president of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), the financial industry that backstops insurance companies, told Congress in 2025 when lobbying to restore funding for NOAA that DOGE sought to cut. Brilliant, folks, without reinsurance South Louisiana has no property insurance. And when insurance companies cannot reliably predict potential losses, they will drastically raise prices or just not offer insurance in particular areas:

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