Defying Trump’s NASA Proposal, Congress Looks to Maintain Budget, Including Science, Near Current Levels

Defying Trump’s NASA proposal, Congress looks to maintain budget, including science, near current levels

Last year President Trump pitched a severe chop to NASA's proposed annual budget for 2026, but the House and Senate on Monday released an appropriations bill that would mostly ignore those cuts.

Great News for NASA in the House-Senate FY2026 Appropriations Report

The House and Senate Appropriations Committees released the text of their joint conference agreement on the FY2026 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) bill today with a wholesale rejection of the dire cuts to NASA proposed by the Trump Administration. The committees had individually indicated they would not accept Trump’s 24.3 percent cut and the joint agreement calls for only a comparatively small reduction of $400 million from NASA’s $24.8 billion …