{"id":88727,"date":"2019-03-16T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T06:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/trumps-plan-to-destroy-nasa-science-laid-bare-in-fy2020-budget"},"modified":"2019-03-16T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T06:02:12","slug":"trumps-plan-to-destroy-nasa-science-laid-bare-in-fy2020-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/trumps-plan-to-destroy-nasa-science-laid-bare-in-fy2020-budget","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Plan To Destroy NASA Science Laid Bare In FY2020 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trumps-plan-to-destroy-nasa-science-laid-bare-in-fy2020-budget.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the perks of being President of the United States of America is that you get to submit your budget recommendations to the US Congress before any decisions are made. While it\u2019s up to Congress to make the budget and the President to sign it into law, the recommendations for the next fiscal year are where the administration gets to set their agenda and announce to the world the direction it wants to go in.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the <a href=\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2018\/02\/12\/the-horrible-fy2019-budget-to-gut-nasa-astrophysics-destroying-cutting-edge-science\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2018\/02\/12\/the-\u2026e-science\/<\/a>\u201d target=\u201d_self\u201d data-ga-track=\u201d InternalLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2018\/02\/12\/the-horrible-fy2019-budget-to-gut-nasa-astrophysics-destroying-cutting-edge-science\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2018\/02\/12\/the-\u2026e-science\/<\/a>\u201d&gt;Trump administration proposed<\/a> cutting a number of Earth Science missions, ending NASA Astrophysics\u2019 flagship mission for the 2020s, WFIRST, and eliminating NASA\u2019s Office of Education. Then-acting administrator Robert Lightfoot <a href=\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-acting-administrator-statement-on-fiscal-year-2019-budget-proposal\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-acting-administrator\u2026t-proposal<\/a>\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d rel=\u201d nofollow noopener noreferrer\u201d data-ga-track=\u201d ExternalLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-acting-administrator-statement-on-fiscal-year-2019-budget-proposal\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-acting-administrator\u2026t-proposal<\/a>\u201d&gt;put out a statement<\/a> mentioning hard choices and an inability to do everything with a limited budget, but Congress overturned these cuts and restored funding for these programs. This year, the assault is even worse, and has a better chance of succeeding. Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/on.forbes.com\/6180EXStI\">http:\/\/on.forbes.com\/6180EXStI<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of being President of the United States of America is that you get to submit your budget recommendations to the US Congress before any decisions are made. While it\u2019s up to Congress to make the budget and the President to sign it into law, the recommendations for the next fiscal year [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1490,1496,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government","category-law","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}