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Also, all these line items, whole climate and ocean research and observations cost taxpayers $740 million per year. For comparison, ICE already has budget of $10 billion per year and slated for +10% increase in FY26. So if you defund ICE for just one year, you can fund NOAA research and state-of-the-art monitoring for the next 14 years