2/3 of the counties in WA voted for Trump. Closer to 3/4 of the counties in Oregon voted for Trump. Plenty of CCA dues from those two states go back to Houston, TX each year. Now would probably be the time to leverage that by demanding some help at the national level.

And again, NOAA is part of the Commerce Department. While resource conservation and sustainability should be addressed as part of commerce, I really see no reason why an agency within the Department of Commerce (or the Corp of Engineers for that matter) should be continually bending over backward to further the interests of tribes, who often operate as their own government free of tax obligations.