"Purging the government of scientists, experts, and career civil servants and slashing fundamental programs will cost lives."
"People nationwide depend on NOAA for free, accurate forecasts, severe weather alerts, and emergency information."
"If Big Oil, Wall Street, and MAGA cultists locked themselves in a room to write a wish list, this bill would be it."
"A Congress that more and more appears to just be a joke, is now advancing a bill that literally started off as a joke."
"The Trump Tax Scam forces oil and gas lease sales — no matter the cost — even on lands tribes, ranchers, and local communities have fought to protect."
"It torches clean air and water protections, hands over our public lands to polluters at fire-sale prices, and rigs the rules so oil executives can rubber-stamp their own permits in secret."
"I know that many of my colleagues are eager to sit in and express our profound opposition to everything going on."
"Now they have reached NOAA where they’re wreaking havoc on the scientific and regulatory systems that protect American families’ safety and jobs."
"DOGE hackers have unlawfully gained access to private personal information and are gutting critical programs at federal agencies."
"Elon Musk and his DOGE hackers are ransacking their way through the federal government, unlawfully gaining unfettered access to Americans' private information and gutting programs people depend on."