Congressional Democrats have also sought to restore the program within NOAA, introducing a bill last month that has yet to advance.

I’m not hopeful but at least they’re trying.

This year in a nutshell:

The new findings, he said, show that “the year started out with a bang”: the Los Angeles wildfires were likely the costliest in history, with insured losses reaching an estimated $60 billion.

That was followed by a barrage of spring storms across the central and southern United States, including several destructive tornadoes.

Altogether, 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters between January and June caused $101.4 billion in inflation-adjusted damages – though 2025 as a whole may fall short of a record, thanks to a milder-than-usual Atlantic hurricane season.