The Trump administration is pulling the plug on one of Washington’s most entrenched sources of climate hysteria. In a bold step to restore scientific integrity and shut down politicized fearmongering, the White House is dismantling the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)—a longtime fixture of the federal bureaucracy that has pushed worst-case climate disaster scenarios for decades.
The USGCRP, formed in 1990, has been responsible for producing the National Climate Assessment, a document frequently cited by left-wing lawmakers and activists to justify radical environmental regulations. But according to senior administration officials, the program has been hijacked by private consultants with a clear ideological agenda—most notably ICF, a consulting firm now accused of shaping federal climate messaging to fit a narrative of doom.
The Office of Management and Budget, in coordination with the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Government Efficiency, has terminated ICF’s contract. With that decision, the production of the National Climate Assessment has effectively been frozen, and the USGCRP itself is now on track for closure.
Sources inside the administration say the program had become a “climate doom factory,” churning out worst-case scenarios that lacked transparency and accountability. “They weren’t doing science—they were doing activism,” one official said. “We’re ending that.”
According to scientists formerly involved with the National Climate Assessment, ICF wielded an outsized influence over the USGCRP, essentially running the operation by providing its entire staffing infrastructure. That arrangement gave a single private contractor immense power to shape the government’s climate messaging, which critics say was routinely slanted to support far-left policy goals like the Green New Deal and carbon rationing.
Supporters of the administration’s move say it’s long overdue. “This was taxpayer-funded propaganda disguised as science,” one energy policy expert noted. “It’s about time someone stepped in to demand honesty and realism.”
President Trump has made clear that climate policy under his administration will be guided by common sense, energy independence, and economic growth—not the apocalyptic fantasies pushed by unelected bureaucrats and globalist think tanks.
The move is already drawing outrage from environmental activists and Democrats in Congress, but the Trump administration isn’t backing down. Instead, officials say they’re working on a new framework for environmental data—one that respects both the science and the people who have to live with its policy consequences.
For Americans tired of fear-based policymaking and government agencies used as tools of political manipulation, this marks a major step in the right direction. Under Trump, the days of unchallenged climate panic peddled from inside the federal government are coming to an end.
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