The Trump administration has set its sights on reducing the size of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with plans to terminate around 800 employees, according to sources close to the agency. The layoffs are part of a broader effort to shrink the government workforce.
Additional layoffs are expected, with the possibility of more than a thousand employees being let go by the end of the week. The affected employees come from various divisions of NOAA, including those specializing in weather, oceans, biodiversity, climate, and planetary monitoring.
