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NASA may lose thousands of employees for Trump cuts

 

Casa Branca presented a proposal to reduce NASA budget to 2026 from $ 24.8 billion to $ 18.8 billion

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United States Space Agency may not have billions of dollars by 2026 (Image: SNHIT Photo/Shutterstock)

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One of the goals of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is to promote cuts in public spending. According to the Republican, the government of the country spends too much and it is necessary to urgently decrease national public debt.

For this reason, the White House presented an aggressive budget reduction proposal that even affects NASA’s operations. The text still has to be analyzed by Congress, but the impact of the layoffs on the space agency is already concerned.

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Trump wants to reduce public spending (Image: Jonah Elkowitz/Shutterstock)

Even the mission launch center can be affected

According to information on the political portal, NASA should lose at least 2,145 employees as part of Trump’s government effort for budget cuts. Almost all of these employees are in higher charges, which require specialized skills or management experience.

In total, about 1,818 of these workers operate in human mission or space flight areas, with the rest performing support functions such as computer science, facilities or finance management. In addition, the Kennedy Space Center must also be affected, where the main launches of space missions occur.

The wave of layoffs even affects NASA (Image: Andrey_popov/Shutterstock)

To get worse, the departure of these more than two thousand workers should be voluntary, which occurred by the government’s stimulus and represents only half of the cuts defended by President Donald Trump. A scenario that can affect future investigations and missions, especially on the moon.

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Cuts to the United States Space Agency may undergo future research and missions (image: mamun_sheikh/shutterstock)

NASA’s future is uncertain

  • The White House presented a proposal to reduce NASA budget to 2026 from $ 24.8 billion to $ 18.8 billion.
  • The agency’s scientific areas would be the worst affected, with a reduction in almost half of the resources.
  • If approved, the measure can lead to the dismissal of a third of the space agency employees.
  • In addition, important missions, such as the Juno probe, in Jupiter and New Horizons, who studied Pluto, are in danger of closing.
  • Experts warn that these cancellations may delay the progress of US spatial exploitation for years.

 

 

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