"Project 2025 wants to get rid of NOAA, wants to get rid of the National Weather Service — the people that tell you the weather and help you prepare for hurricanes," said Moskowitz, a former Florida emergency management director under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The National Weather Service in Greenville and Spartanburg issued an urgent message Thursday afternoon about Helene and the impacts to South Carolina.

The policy blueprint for a Republican administration says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ‘should be broken up and downsized’

The 900-page playbook calls for a review of the National Hurricane Center's work but doesn't directly call to eliminate it.