News Summary February 28, 2025
Today’s Top Story: Mass Firings at NOAA Spark Outrage Among Fishery Scientists
In our top story today, 880 employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including those working for NOAA Fisheries, received their pink slips yesterday, as part of the Trump administration’s effort to make the federal bureaucracy more efficient. NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, is the latest in a string of federal agencies targeted for cuts by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Key individuals weighed in on the matter, including U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, California Rep. Jared Huffman, Dr. Ray Hilborn, and Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California...
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