Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/congress-moves-to-reject-bulk-of-white-houses-proposed-nasa-cuts/
Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/congress-moves-to-reject-bulk-of-white-houses-proposed-nasa-cuts/
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‘Bout effin’ time this lame duck congress did something FOR the people and not TACOman.
Cut it to pass the reconciliation bill, and then re-fund it later but don’t account for how it’s going to be paid for.
This is a good start, but they MUST fund the science as well. The administration’s proposal is outrageous and inadequate.
This is good, I have been worried about this for a while and I honestly didn’t think NASA had a chance, this gives me hope.
Didn’t the bill already pass? How is this still in discussion? Are other parts of it also rejectable still?
Oh yeah sounds great now that a bunch of us already left. Not holding my breath.
Hopefully NSF, NIH, NOAA will also get their funding restored.
How does this work? I thought the budget was already passed by both houses. Is it still being debated or do different areas need extra approval?
Does it matter if everyone is fired in the meantime?
The White House can still decide to not pay them though
So congress can possess a spine just typically chooses not to
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Broken clocks are right twice a day, and all that.
Wait, you mean Congress is finally noticing that they set the budget, and not Big Balls?
Supreme Court just ruled re the Education Dept that the president doesn’t actually have to staff agencies mandated by law. I’m not sure Congress has much say anymore.
Its hopeful. NASA proposed shutting down half of the current space missions and most of the future ones.
There are still the problems that:
(1) This administration is moving to close out and shut down the programs they proposed cutting ASAP. That is in spite of the fact that they are still currently funded by Congress through the end of fiscal year 2025 (end of September), and Congress is giving an indication that they want to continue funding much of them beyond that.
(2) The budget basically never passes before the beginning of the fiscal year it is for. Given recent politics, passing it around December/January would be amazing. There never was a new budget passed for FY 2025, as the US government is operating under a resolution continuing the funding levels from 2024. In the interim, there will likely be another continuing resolution maintaining the current funding levels (FWIW, given point 1).
A good start. NASA must be protected and is imo one of the country’s pride and joy’s.
Good news, the country was great when we invested in research
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