"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 former Florida emergency management director under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Project 2025, a controversial plan that seeks to inform a future conservative administration, calls for the “break up” of the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA). NOAA houses the National Weather Service.

The policy blueprint for a Republican administration says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ‘should be broken up and downsized’

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 the League of Conservation Voters on X.