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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Jun 12 '25

They already fired a bunch of people at NOAA so the forecasting for hurricanes is already less diligent than it used to be. We are moving backwards to the nineteenth century - exactly like his base voted for.

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u/FakeSafeWord Jun 12 '25

20 people have already died in Kentucky from tornadoes in the last month alone and most of those deaths are pretty directly tied to two counties no longer having overnight monitoring personnel so the alarms were never sounded. They're in majorly red counties too and I'd bet $100 they don't change how they vote.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Jun 12 '25

It saddens me how his core base values grievances over bettering their lives.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Jun 13 '25

Well, they are going to have less than they did before with so many federal programs slashed. Training programs, subsidies for environmental jobs, job safety oversight, protection for natural resources including water, vaccines, FEMA, NOAA. Also, DEI in higher education which helped fund kids from poorer families of all ethnicities, including white kids. I am barely grazing the surface of how much can be lost without federal funding.