Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
a year ago
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- #Science Funding
- #Budget Cuts
- Trump White House proposes a 20% overall cut to NASA's budget, reducing it by $5 billion from $25 billion.
- Majority of cuts target the Science Mission Directorate, with nearly a 50% reduction in funding.
- Science budget proposed to drop from $7.5 billion in FY2025 to $3.9 billion in FY2026.
- Astrophysics faces a two-thirds cut to $487 million; heliophysics cut by over two-thirds to $455 million.
- Earth science reduced by over 50% to $1.033 billion; planetary science cut by 30% to $1.929 billion.
- Ongoing missions like Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes continue, but Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is canceled.