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    Report claims NASA taking illegal steps to implement budget proposal putting science and safety in jeopardy

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    1. TheGunfighter7 on

      It’s far from a secret. It’s been stated out in the open many times by agency leadership. The agency has been moving towards enacting the president’s budget ever since it came out.

    2. OlympusMons94 on

      Just a couple of weeks ago, Acting Administrator of NASA Duffy ordered NASA [to work toward the FY2026 House budget billl](https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/amid-budget-uncertainty-nasa-gets-some-good-news-use-house-funding-levels/). The events and claims referenced are either from this past summer or don’t have a specified timeframe attached. (And that the administration at least *had* been illegally working to implement the PBR has been known for months, so the gist of the report isn’t news.) Either there is an ongoing conflict within the administration, with Vought and his ilk still pushing to implement the President’s Budget Request (PBR); or the report’s claims about implementing the PBR are just outdated.

      The House bill would maintain the exact same overall NASA budget as FY 2024 and 2025, with smaller (*but still significant*) cuts to science, and a bigger bump to exploration, compared to the PBR. (The Senate bill would instead have a negligible increase to the overall and exploration budgets, with science funding more or less flat.)

      [Comparison of budgets for FY2025 (really a Continuing Resolution of the FY2024 budget), FY2026 PBR, FY2026 House bill, and FY2026 Senate bill](https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/house-appropriators-approve-fy2026-budget-for-nasa/).