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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Brian Slodysko and Michael Biesecker

Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts

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As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government’s vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather.

The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left in the control of his adult sons, that stands to benefit if President Donald Trump's administration follows through on a decade-long Republican effort to privatize government weather forecasting.

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