Fact-checking what Project 2025 says about the National Weather Service and NOAA

This fact check originally appeared onPolitiFact.As Florida braced for Hurricane Helene, some weather and politics observers were mad about Project 2025.“Reminder that Project 2025 would dismantle the National Weather Service and NOAA,” wrote theLeague of Conservation Voterson X.NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, founded in 1970.WATCH: Nation’s top weather and climate service faces potential political storm“As Florida prepares for a major hurricane to make landfall this week, don’t forget that Donald Trump’s Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and NOAA,” Brian Tyler Cohen, a liberal YouTube influencer,posted on Instagram.We heard a similar statement about Project 2025 fromU.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., during a Sept. 19 House Oversight Committeehearing.“Project 2025 wants to get rid of NOAA, wants to get rid of the National Weather Service — the people that tell you the weather and help you prepare for hurricanes,” said Moskowitz, a p...