CNN’s Bash, Weather Anchor Van Dam Attempt to Link the Devastating Storms Over the Weekend to Trump’s NOAA and FEMA Budget Cuts

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VAN DAM: "Yeah, Dana, NOAA really, truly is the invisible backbone of everything that we consume. Not only are they responsible for the availability of the weather and climate data that we pass on to viewers, but also the infrastructure that helps make that data available. Think about radar infrastructure. Think about balloon launches that feed weather and climate models. Think about the satellites that monitor our weather from Space. We have — every kind of economic impact that NOAA, the National Weather Service, actually touches, from agriculture to air transportation, to commerce, to tourism, it is all dependent on the weather. And if we start cutting back and rolling back this personnel, there will be chaos. And the butterfly effects down the road are yet to be determined, really.”