While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal
agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.
Not exact matches
The Senate had on February 14, 2018, asked 63
agencies and parastatals
under the Federal Government to submit details of their
proposed 2018
budget within one week or risk sanctions.
Many U.S. science
agencies would have to make do with less
under the president's 2006
budget request, which aims to cut the deficit, boost military and antiterrorism spending, and make tax cuts permanent President George W. Bush has
proposed a flat
budget for U.S. science next year.
Although the
agency's water resources programs would see the smallest funding increases
under the
proposed budget — just 5 % to $ 222 million — they would remain the
agency's single largest spending area.
Compared with other science
agencies, NASA would fare well
under the
proposed budget, but a quartet of earth science missions would face elimination
under the plan.
Despite a series of further
proposed cuts to the space
agency's planetary science
budget in recent years by the White House, Congress has nevertheless been much more supportive of a Europa mission, appropriating more than $ 100 million during the same time period for the further development of a mission concept called the Europa Clipper, which is currently
under study by NASA.