Milwaukee County and the surrounding areas have witnessed record breaking rainfall and flash flooding, leading to family homes collapsing and streets caving in. Despite this, the Trump administration wants to cut funding to essential climate programs in the fiscal year 2026 budget.
Funding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the Department of Energy is essential to continuing research about our changing climate, increasing our competitiveness in the green energy race, ensuring America’s grid is capable of supporting increased demand and reducing costs for taxpayers and ratepayers.
Without these climate programs, disasters like the floods in Milwaukee this August will be harder to bounce back from, as they happen more frequently, without funding for programs which seek to understand, combat, and remediate after major weather events.
Our congress members, Sens. Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore, must act now to resist the funding cuts to climate programs in the proposed FY26 budget. Without their rejection, Milwaukee, a supposed “climate haven,” and thousands of communities across the United States will continue to suffer the disastrous effects of climate change while funding that could have been used to combat this is used elsewhere.
Margaret Shears, Wauwatosa
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