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Ted Cruz pushes back on NASA budget cuts: 'I don't want to wake up one day and look up at the moon and realize the Chinese have beat us there'

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Sen. Ted Cruz told engineers on NASA's Artemis program, "we'll take care of the politics...so you can do your job," amid steep cuts to NASA's funding in the Presidents fiscal year 2027 budget request.

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Donald Trump’s government is looking for a 23% cut in the general budget of NASA. The reduction has been proposed despite the fact that the agency, as the saying goes, “the moon and the stars fell” to the United States with the Artemis II mission. In the case of scientific research done by the agency, the cut would touch 50%. Congressmen from both parties have rejected this proposal. Officials and politicians from both parties have reiterated th…

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