Neil Jacobs, acting administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, speaks at NOAA’s 2019 Hurricane Season Outlook press conference in Arlington, Va., on May 23, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Just days after catastrophic flash floods devastated Central Texas, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told the Senate on July 9 that he would seek improvements to the agency’s weather forecasting and warning capabilities despite recent budget cuts.
Neil Jacobs, a meteorologist who headed NOAA on an acting basis during the first Trump administration, testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee less than a week after floods claimed the lives of at least 119 people in Texas’s Hill Country, with at least 173 still missing.
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