US EditionTrump Proposes 23% Cut to NASA Budget
The plan would cut NASA science by 47% and eliminate more than 40 missions while boosting Artemis spending, according to the White House.
- On Friday, The White House released an $18.8 billion budget proposal for NASA fiscal year 2027, increasing spending on exploration programs by nearly 10% to $8.5 billion.
- The Budget proposes cutting Science funding by $3.4 billion, or 47%, while reducing International Space Station operations by $1.1 billion and terminating STEM Engagement programs that received $143 million in 2026.
- Trump administration officials labeled certain technology projects "frivolous," cutting space technology spending by $297 million while allocating $175 million for new robotic missions to establish a lunar base.
- More than 100 members of Congress, nearly all Democrats, urged appropriators to ignore the proposal in a March 13 letter, requesting $9 billion for NASA Science in 2027, a 25% increase from 2026.
- Jamie Wise, a staff member of the House Appropriations Committee's Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee, predicted at the Goddard Space Science Symposium March 13, "I would probably follow the betting and say that 27 is going to look like 26.
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The White House once again asks Congress to cut NASA’s scientific budget by almost half, imitating last year’s attempt that was rejected by legislators. The proposal, published Friday morning, seeks to cut about $6 billion from NASA’s total spending, in a second attempt by the Trump administration to cut the agency’s budget by almost a quarter after legislators funded it at Biden levels last year.
The White House Is Still Desperately Trying to Slash NASA's Budget
Last year, the Trump administration made efforts to deal NASA a devastating blow by making brutal cuts to its budget for the agency’s fiscal year 2026, something that would’ve wiped out thousands of jobs and place dozens of groundbreaking space missions on the chopping block. Fortunately, the “extinction-level event for space science and exploration in the United States,” as Planetary Society chief of space policy Casey Dreier described it at th…
White House Requests Additional $900 Million for Moon Landing, Base in Budget Proposal
HOUSTON—As NASA sends humanity back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, the White House requested that the federal government add $960 million of funding for the space program’s lunar ambitions in fiscal year 2027. This is the only program to receive a funding increase. The proposed budget is $5.6 billion lower than the year before, with funding cuts for programs including the International Space Station and the development of …
The White House budget also provides about US$ 1 billion in the budget of the International Space Station, which is programmed to be disabled in 2030.
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