NASA, Trump and Protests
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Hundreds of current and former NASA employees protest budget cuts, warning they harm safety, national security, and scientific progress.
The White House's 2026 budget proposal threatens dozens of active and upcoming science missions designed to explore the cosmos.
A declaration of dissent from past and present NASA employees warns that science and safety are at risk and joins similar documents from staff at other federal science agencies
Workers from within NASA will protest the space agency leadership's "preemptive over-compliance" of the White House's proposed budget, gutting science and eliminating jobs.
Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have opted to leave the space agency through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, NASA said on Saturday. The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce,