The Trump administration's significant reductions in disaster management funding pose a serious threat to American lives, warns expert Samantha Montano. The cuts affect crucial agencies like FEMA and NOAA, compromising their ability to forecast and manage emergencies. Montano highlights that the current approach to disaster preparedness is deteriorating, leaving emergency managers without vital data and resources needed to respond effectively to increasing threats from climate-related disasters and pandemics. Without a reversal of these funding cuts, the frequency and devastation of disasters, including hurricanes, could lead to higher death tolls in the U.S.
The Trump administration's sweeping cuts to disaster management will cost American lives, with hollowed-out agencies unable to accurately predict, prepare for or respond to extreme weather events.
Emergency managers will be operating blindly without the data that we have become accustomed to from NOAA and other science agencies.
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