US government shutdown curtails key weather and climate programs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : That's because the major source of flood insurance for millions of homeowners is among the non-essential government services caught up in the shutdown, and new policies can't be initiated while it's ongoing.
53% : The furloughs hitting government offices across the country, meanwhile, are expected to be particularly severe and extensive at the Environmental Protection Agency.
50% : In response to a question about whether EPA employees working on those rollbacks would be furloughed, the agency press office said in an email that the "EPA will work to fulfill our statutory obligations, emergency response efforts, and Administration priorities.
38% : At an all-hands meeting for NOAA's research division Tuesday, agency leaders encouraged staff not to put anything related to the shutdown in writing, including in emails to colleagues and research collaborators, according to people who attended the meeting but were not authorized to talk about it publicly.
20% : Trump has threatened to fire "a lot" of workers, though no agencies have explicitly called for terminations in their shutdown plans.

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