From Isaac Schultz's 4-11-25 GIZMODO article entitled "Sneak Preview of Trump’s 2026 NASA Budget Is a Science-Killing Horror Show":
After
weeks of uncertainty, it appears that the Trump administration is
preparing to gut NASA, based on a preliminary budget that would see the
space agency’s funding nearly halved.
Weeks of whispers (read: statements in scientific and Congressional committee meetings) have already indicated the way the breeze was blowing for NASA. And by breeze, we mean hurricane-force headwinds. The Washington Post reported that the preliminary “passback” version of Donald Trump’s budget proposal would slash NASA’s funding to $3.9 billion from $7.3 billion [...].
Already, space science thought leaders are describing the passback budget as an extinction-level event for NASA, an agency that has led the way in space exploration for nearly 70 years.
As reported by Ars Technica, the document is just the first part of a process for the fiscal-year 2026 budget, produced by the White House Office of Management and Budget. That office is run by Russell Vought—whose goal from day one was to “traumatically” affect scientists, as reported by Nature.
Weeks of whispers (read: statements in scientific and Congressional committee meetings) have already indicated the way the breeze was blowing for NASA. And by breeze, we mean hurricane-force headwinds. The Washington Post reported that the preliminary “passback” version of Donald Trump’s budget proposal would slash NASA’s funding to $3.9 billion from $7.3 billion [...].
Already, space science thought leaders are describing the passback budget as an extinction-level event for NASA, an agency that has led the way in space exploration for nearly 70 years.
As reported by Ars Technica, the document is just the first part of a process for the fiscal-year 2026 budget, produced by the White House Office of Management and Budget. That office is run by Russell Vought—whose goal from day one was to “traumatically” affect scientists, as reported by Nature.
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