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That's not evidence?

In a previous administration, a previous CEO of AccuWeather was appointed to run NOAA.

This is extremely common, since who better to run a weather forecasting organisation, than someone who previously ran a weather forecasting organisation.

If anything, that's evidence that even when Trump had ample opportunity to privatize NOAA, he didn't.






> If anything, that's evidence that even when Trump had ample opportunity to privatize NOAA, he didn't.

If you read the article, you might notice that this is an ongoing lobbying operation that has been fighting congress since 2005.


And yet, despite having all the levers to do so, Trump never privatized it.

Since you're conflating anecdotes with evidence, perhaps you should also consider the "evidence" that Trump has already decided not to do exactly what you're seemingly convinced he wants to do.

Nor has Congress.


Trump didn't have all the levers. NOAA cannot be defunded by an executive order.

AccuWeather isn't a weather forecasting organisation. They merely provide an interface to data gathered by others.

Trump had zero opportunity to privatize NOAA because you can't do that via executive order furthermore that would be were it even true useless in discerning whether he or indeed others in his circle wanted to do that now.




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