Das Weiße Haus hält trotz des jüngsten Haushaltsentwurfs die Finanzierung von NASA-Wissenschaftsmissionen zurück
https://gizmodo.com/white-house-withholds-funding-for-nasa-science-missions-despite-recent-budget-bill-2000721603
Das Weiße Haus hält trotz des jüngsten Haushaltsentwurfs die Finanzierung von NASA-Wissenschaftsmissionen zurück
https://gizmodo.com/white-house-withholds-funding-for-nasa-science-missions-despite-recent-budget-bill-2000721603
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they will give the same funding to space x instead. Then space x will donate money to campaigns and super pacs. Rinse and repeat.
Of course. Nobody in the administration personally profits off of it if they just give out Congressionally appropriated money!
What if they promise to name the moon after him?
Would be nice to be a nation of laws where the Constitution was upheld.
Last sentence in the article really should be the first sentence. Otherwise it’s just clickbait.
Well at least I can buy cheap eggs. It’s all worth it now.
>“This pause in commitments is intended to prevent negative work; once the signed apportionment is received from OMB-which could be as soon as Tuesday, February 17th,” the e-mail continued. “This temporary hold is expected to last for 10 business days, but may be extended.”
This isn’t good, of course, but it’s not as bad as the headline would have you believe.
After reading the e-mail and the NASA funding bill a bit more, I’m not sure if this is exactly legal. The NASA funding bill explicitly prohibited OMB from impounding any of the NASA Science funds. So now they’re trying to skirt around this prohibition in the funding bill by using apportionment in a highly unusual way. They technically aren’t „withholding funding“, instead they are issuing the apportionment paperwork but adding a note that says: „These funds are available, but you cannot commit them to new contracts until we finish a 10-day ‚policy review‘, and this policy review apparently can also be extended. I’m not sure for how long can it be extended, but if they can extend this review every 10 days for several months, they can effectively „starve“ missions like the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope or the Earth science programs from much-needed cash.
Technically might be legal, but in practice completely against the language of the funding bill which stated that NASA has to spend „no less than“ the amount provided by the bill. I wonder what’s gonna happen next and what Jared Isaacman and Congress have to say about this. Best case scenario though is that this crisis ends on February 17 with policy review finished, so let’s hope for that.