USGS Says Red River Flood Monitoring Threatened By Sequester
“I went to check the level for the Red River and low and behold, sequestration has struck again,” a Fargo-area reader emailed me this morning.
Sure enough, here’s the “threatened gage” warning on the USGS website:
Just so we’re clear, the sequester spending reductions are tiny, and aren’t even real spending cuts but merely reductions in the growth of federal spending:
Just more “make it hurt” politics. The idea that we have to cut back on flood monitoring as a result in reductions in the growth of government spending is absurd.
