The cuts could have life-or-death consequences, according to critics of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.

Alabama’s preeminent meteorologist defended workers with the National Weather Service on Tuesday as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency takes aim at the agency overseeing the NWS with job and budget cuts.

Was the National Weather Service in Hanford spared from last week’s massive layoffs? Yes, it seems — at least for now. The National Weather Service was targeted for mass layoffs last week by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency that led to hundreds of fired weather forecasters.

Weather experts predict that Elon Musk's latest round of government firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including at the National Weather Service, will almost certainly make it more difficult to predict dangerous weather emergencies as quickly as needed.

The Trump administration's latest round of federal terminations included firing hundreds of staffers at NOAA and the National Weather Service last week.

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

Recent cuts to national weather forecasting infrastructure have inspired backlash against the Trump administration.

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired

Trump and Musk] are laughing at us on social media, while I come in every day to do my duties,” a worker at the NWS told HuffPost.

The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy.

The firings included Great Lakes experts and meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

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