David Titley, a professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University who served as NOAA's chief operating officer in the Obama administration, said that "oddly" the White House budget office, despite the president's commitment to building infrastructure, would cut NOAA's budget for ships and satellites. "These cuts will impact good private sector jobs in the U.S.," Titley said. " The loss of capability will make America weaker both in space and on the sea -- a strange place to be for an administration that campaigned to 'make American great again'."