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The Hurricane Dorian mess was still generating backlash on September 9 as Trump’s false Alabama claim continued to drag NOAA and the Weather Service into an ugly political cleanup. The problem had already moved beyond a bad tweet: the administration was now under scrutiny for bending federal science around the president’s mistake.
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The Hurricane Dorian mess was still generating backlash on September 9 as Trump’s false Alabama claim continued to drag NOAA and the Weather Service into an ugly political cleanup. The problem had already moved beyond a bad tweet: the administration was now under scrutiny for bending federal science around the president’s mistake.
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The Hurricane Dorian mess was still generating backlash on September 9 as Trump’s false Alabama claim continued to drag NOAA and the Weather Service into an ugly political cleanup. The problem had already moved beyond a bad tweet: the administration was now under scrutiny for bending federal science around the president’s mistake.
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