{"id":1666,"date":"2026-01-13T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/congress-moves-to-preserve-noaa-funding-for-fisheries-and-climate-research\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:01:30","slug":"congress-moves-to-preserve-noaa-funding-for-fisheries-and-climate-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/congress-moves-to-preserve-noaa-funding-for-fisheries-and-climate-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Moves to Preserve NOAA Funding for Fisheries and Climate\u00a0Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 13, 2026<\/b> \u2013 On Monday, Senators moved a funding package<\/a> forward that would preserve 2026 funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), despite the Trump administration\u2019s proposed deep cuts to the agency last year.<\/p>\n

The appropriations bill, which funds multiple agencies, already passed in the House; the Senate is expected to send it to President Donald Trump\u2019s desk this week.<\/p>\n

Last year, Trump requested a $1.5 billion cut to the agency\u2019s roughly $6 billion budget. A memo<\/a> from his Office of Management and Budget also proposed eliminating NOAA\u2019s office dedicated to research on climate and weather patterns, zeroing out funding for weather and ocean labs, and moving regulation of fisheries to the Fish & Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n

Experts warned<\/a> the budget cuts could have dire consequences for farmers, who rely on weather data, and the country\u2019s fisheries<\/a>, which rely on NOAA to enforce catch limits, invest in habitat conservation, and preserve coastlines.<\/p>\n

However, members of Congress, which holds the power of the purse, are rejecting those changes. The appropriations bill funds NOAA at around $6.1 billion, which is similar to the funding it received in 2025. According to a summary<\/a> released by Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington), the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the bill rejects more than $300 million in proposed cuts to the National Marine Fisheries Service and provides $224 million for climate research, rather than zeroing it out.<\/p>\n

On the Senate floor, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said<\/a> the bill reflected months of work involving significant bipartisan compromise. It will also support the lobster and fishing industries of particular concern in Maine, she said. \u201cThe Commerce bill also supports our oceans and fisheries and weather programs that are enormously important to our working waterfronts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in 2025, as part of the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to cut staff across the federal government, NOAA let go more than 600 hundred employees and proposed deeper staff cuts<\/a>. But the agency recently offered<\/a> many of those employees their jobs back. (Link to this post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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