Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA

Image: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Image credit: GSFC/SVS. Article by Eric Berger. Ars Technica – April 11, 2025.

This week, as part of the process to develop a budget for fiscal-year 2026, the Trump White House shared the draft version of its budget request for NASA with the space agency. This initial version of the administration’s budget request calls for an approximately 20 percent overall cut to the agency’s budget across the board, effectively $5 billion from an overall topline of about $25 billion. However, the majority of the cuts are concentrated within the agency’s Science Mission Directorate, which oversees all planetary science, Earth science, astrophysics research, and more. […]

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