Overview

• Acting NASA leaders have instructed staff to realign their workforce and resources to match President Trump’s proposed $6 billion FY26 budget cut before Congress approves it.
• The agency’s chief of staff directed science programs slated for cancellation to stop issuing press releases on new research findings.
• Ranking Democrats Zoe Lofgren and Valerie P. Foushee argue that enforcing cuts ahead of legislative approval violates Congress’s constitutional appropriations power.
• A draft spending bill from the House Appropriations Committee rejects the proposed reductions and aims to maintain NASA’s FY25 funding levels.
• Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz added $10 billion in a reconciliation bill to preserve programs the administration sought to phase out.