Non-employees warn science and safely at risk from White House budget cuts

Non-employees warn science and safely at risk from White House budget cuts

Staff staff on NASA White Bound Cuts in the rare public sea

A statement of revulsion from the past and now the NASA employees warn that science and safety are at risk and includes similar documents from federal science staff

NASA logo is shown at the Gate of Mary W. Jackson on headquarters building on June 2, 2025 in Washington, DC

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More than 280 employees in NASA past and present, including at least 4 astronauts, sign A declaration of objection UNTO The multiple changes change that the president of the US Donald Trump president works to work. The declaration also urged the head of NASA’s head not to do before the budget budget cuts.

“The last six months has seen changes that are rapidly destroyed our mission and cause the effects of workforter to the workforter of Sean Dean employees. It has been threatening the survivors of man.

The Voyager declaration joins protest documents with other US federal agencies, including national health institutions (NIH) and EPA). Appeal appeals from Trump’s campaign that fleds the Federal Government, carrying mass firing to workers and the suggestion of steep cuts on agency budgets.


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The declaration is “part of quitting our public discharge and say, Hey – This is what is happening to NASA, and it’s not ok”, says the document. The Kaplan moves on a contract basis as a WaveDard Wave Flight Center administrator in Greenbelt, Maryland, and not himself and not his employer or in NASA.

Kaplan says she doesn’t expect Duffy to read the document or so care about it when she does. When Duffy was running a chair in the US Congress for over a decade ago, he released a campaign that chooses him wearing an ax in Washington “.

The agency is not interested in maintaining the “lowest missions”, as the NASA speaker Bethany Stevens. “We need to again what work and what is not to encourage America people and win the race in space.”

Staff exodus

The Declaration of Voyager, named Twin in the spacecraft exploring interstellar space, protest against science funding staffing and other science budgets and other science budgets and other science budgets. The agency fired some employees and forced others to leave, resulting in loss of more 2,600 to 17,000-plus employees in NASA, according to news platform politician. At least US $ 118 million in NASA Grants have been canceled directlyAnd the White House suggests about half of the agency science budget for next year.

Congress, setting up spending, can be rejected with some of the proposed cuts. But managers in many NASA scientific projects are asked to draw out plans for wipeing their programs even when the budget is not completed by the budget of signers in the declaration. “Once the spacecraft surgery is decommissioned, they cannot return,” the document says. NASA, like other agencies, the priorities of spending, and Duffy, and Duffy, and the interim administrator could not end a budget.

The declaration assumed that since Trump took office, safeguarding a seat in the back politics, marking a “dangerous turn of the efforts to pass through the human area. Stevens replies” The NASA is not compromised. “

Sigers in the document also disagree with the agency withdrawal from international mission, saying such actions threaten Collaborate with other agencies in the country’s space. For example, the Budget Proposal of the House Budget, canceled the participation of NASA on European agency missions in Mars and Venus.

Opposing employees to other federal agencies encountered with reaction mixtures. In NIH, where more than 480 employees signed a deceit in Bethesda, director Jay Bhattacharya said. But the EPA administrator Zebad Zeldin puts more than 100 signatures of a documentation of administrative abandonment of the President’s agenda. US National Science Foundation staff also plans a declaration, according to a leaked version of the document.

In 287 signatures in NASA document, 156 is not identified.

Dan Garisto’s further report.

This article has been copied with permission and first published On July 21, 2025.

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