WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.) pushed the Trump Administration to reverse its shortsighted staff cuts and harmful reductions to critical weather forecasting services and snowpack surveys at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). With an atmospheric river bearing down on California through Christmas, which has already caused severe flooding in Redding (https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/nws-cuts-river-forecast-california-21106301.php), the Senators raised the alarm that these dangerous cuts will restrict California's preparation for dangerous storms and fl...