Mike Flood joins group introducing bill to protect National Weather Service employees from budget cuts

Video shows the National Weather Service office in Valley preparing and launching a weather balloon.

Congressman Mike Flood is joining a bipartisan group of lawmakers who are introducing a new bill that would classify NWS employees as critical to public safety, protecting them from future budget cuts.

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In midst of its rush to slash government spending the Department of Government Efficiency took aim at just about every federal agency.

They wanted to get rid of wasteful spending but critical services like the National Weather Service found themselves in the cross fire.

“The men and women of the National Weather Service. The hydrologists, the forecasters, the meteorologists, the electronic technicians. All of those folks, the scientists, weren’t classified as public