Trump’s NASA Cuts Would Hurt America for a Long, Long Time

Trump’s NASA Cuts Would Hurt America for a Long, Long Time

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies that caught my eye this week.First up, a bummer! NASA is facing devastating cuts to Earth science, and science in general, which is pretty important for an agency tasked with understanding the universe. I try to keep this newsletter relatively downer-free, but current events are not cooperating with this aim.  Then: the early bird gets the comet, a donkey destined for decapitation, a grand unive…

Senate Rejects Trump’s Cuts to NSF, Other Science Agencies

The Senate committee also protected the National Weather Service staff from mass layoffs. But a fight over the FBI has left the bill in limbo. Signs that Congress intends to push back on the Trump administration’s wholesale slashing of federal budgets emerged during a Senate meeting Thursday that kicked off the annual appropriations process.

POLITICO Pro: ‘Set up for failure’: Trump’s cuts bring climate and energy agencies to a standstill, workers say

Federal workers say taxpayers are now getting far less from the government because of the DOGE-led effort to cut the workforce.

Trump Budget Guts Scientific Research

William J. Broad, science writer for The New York Times, reports on the Trump administration’s draconian cuts to scientific research. As the U.S. cuts back on investments in basic research, China is increasing its spending. I invite anyone who reads this to try to explain why this administration is reducing spending on scientific research. Broad writes: President Trump’s budget plan guts federal science funding for the next fiscal year, accordin…

Senate Appropriators Poised to Reject Proposed NASA Budget Cuts, But…

The Senate Appropriations Committee met today to vote on three appropriations bills including the Commerce-Justice-Science bill that funds NASA. As presented by the CJS subcommittee, the bill would reject the deep cuts to NASA’s budget proposed by President Trump, but an unrelated matter — the location of the new FBI headquarters — prevented the bill from being approved. The committee recessed without taking a final vote so the bill is in limbo …