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Oh yeah that's 100 percent part of it. But the push over the line for modern mainstream conservatives is watching the government do something the private sector could profit from. That's literally the line they've said they wanted between public and private sector ever since I was old enough to pay attention to politics in the 90's. The climate change thing is why the radicals care and why it's a run at the entirety of NOAA instead of just the NWS.