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Space.com on MSNNearly 300 NASA scientists sign 'Voyager Declaration' to protest Trump space science budget cutsThe signatories warn that political interference and abrupt budget reductions could jeopardize decades of progress in space exploration, aeronautics and climate science.
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At NASA, the past six months under President Donald Trump's administration "have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts" on a diminishing workforce,
A key source told Ars that the recent budget action in the House and Senate indicates that legislators are taking the impoundment threat from the Office of Management and Budget seriously. Their best weapon in this fight would be to pass a budget on time, and they appear to be trying to do so.
The Trump Administration’s proposed budget cuts at NASA are currently facing pushback from Congress, possibly signalling good news for NASA Wallops Flight Facility here in Accomack County.
Congress’s proposed budgets would preserve more research spending than the president’s. It’s a rare rebuke from Republicans to the White House’s efforts to gut funding for several research support agencies.
"Though the House and Senate have much still to debate on full-year appropriations, this much is clear: Congress is rejecting the full extent of the unprecedented, unstrategic, and wasteful cuts to NASA and NASA science proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget," the Planetary Society said in a statement.
Late last year, President Trump announced a new — and expensive — mission for NASA: Return Americans to the moon, then reach Mars and planets beyond and do it in collaboration with private ...
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Space.com on MSNEvery living former NASA science chief opposes Trump's proposed budget cuts in letter to CongressThe 47% budget cut would obliterate NASA's science program, experts say.
NASA’s budget, part of a $1.7 trillion government spending bill that still needs to be voted on by Congress, is 5.6 percent more than last year's budget. It falls short of the $26 billion ...
NASA's reduced budget for fiscal year 2024 was only approved by Congress last week, and its limitations play into the Biden Administration's ask for the next fiscal year, which was announced Monday.