00:00The Office of Management and Budget's proposed budget for fiscal year 2027 requests $18.8 billion for NASA, roughly a
00:1023% cut from amounts appropriated by Congress in fiscal year 2026.
00:16I simply do not believe that this budget proposal is capable of supporting what President Trump himself has directed the
00:24agency to accomplish over the course of his two terms, nor what Congress has directed by law.
00:31These reductions do not exactly send a welcome home message to the Artemis II crew or to the NASA workforce,
00:38for that matter. A slashing space and earth science, aeronautics, and space technology, while our society increasingly depends on space
00:48assets and services to function, that's just not a winning strategy.
00:52Under the previous administration, NASA, with the support of Congress, rightfully canceled the Mars sample return mission that was conceived
00:59to cost up to $4 billion and in just a few years ballooned to over $10 billion, with $2 billion
01:04in taxpayer funds that have already been spent.
01:07This is not good capital allocation or execution, and adding dozens of other in-formulation or life-extended science missions
01:14alongside it does not necessarily make things better.
01:17American exceptionalism is being challenged in the high ground of space. To win, we cannot establish programs that are designed
01:23to be too big to fail, but at the same time, too costly to succeed.
01:27Nor should it be throwing more money at the problem, but rather fixing the problems and concentrating resources on the
01:33mission and delivering outcomes.
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