The Trump administration is allowing the U.S. National Weather Service to restore most of the hundreds of jobs eliminated by the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency once led by Elon Musk, several members of Congress said on Tuesday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, parent agency of the NWS, plans to hire 450 weather service meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians, U.S. Representatives Mike Flood, a Nebraska Republican, and Eric Sorensen, an Illinois Democrat, said in a joint statement on Thursday.

The two lawmakers have sponsored legislation to exempt weather service employees from DOGE-imposed layoffs and early retirement by reclassifying those positions as critical to public safety. Musk was originally named by President Donald Trump to spear

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