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This resolution acknowledges the growing challenges posed by climate change-driven extreme weather events while highlighting concerns about the reduction of critical weather monitoring infrastructure. Specifically, the resolution recognizes that peer-reviewed scientific research demonstrates climate change is intensifying hurricanes, causing increased coastal flooding and erosion, and driving dangerously heavy rainfall that can lead to life-threatening flood conditions. The resolution notes that the National Weather Service has lost more than 550 employees since January 2025, primarily due to layoffs and buyouts, and that the administration has proposed $2.2 billion in budget cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which oversees the National Weather Service. In response, the resolution formally acknowledges the life-threatening nature of extreme weather events, mourns the loss of lives caused by such events, and calls for maintaining adequate funding and staffing for weather monitoring and alert systems to help protect communities from potential disasters.

Transportation and Infrastructure

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/558/all-info