The Senate appropriations committee challenges Trump’s 2026 budget, aiming to protect NASA Science and NSF from major cuts.

"Though the House and Senate have much still to debate on full-year appropriations, this much is clear: Congress is rejecting the full extent of the unprecedented, unstrategic, and wasteful cuts to NASA and NASA science proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget," the Planetary Society said in a statement.

Republican lawmakers are considering clawing back $9 billion in federal funds, codifying a slice of cuts proposed by DOGE.

As the Senate prepares to vote on a bill to rescind $40 billion in promised foreign aid, critics of the measure say a thorough governmental review of targeted programs did not actually take place.

The president’s proposed budget for 2026 cuts the agency by nearly 25 percent. That would be the largest single-year cut in NASA’s history, taking it back to a level last seen in 1961.

In May, the White House released a budget proposal that would slash NASA funding. But a Senate appropriations plan would protect the agency's budget.

The 47% budget cut would obliterate NASA's science program, experts say.

Senate Republicans are working on a plan that would shield some NASA programs from large cuts proposed by the White House. Officials have discussed directing $10 billion toward programs facing ...

Six weeks after he terminated the nomination of Jared Isaacman to become NASA administrator, President Trump moved on Wednesday evening to install a new temporary leader for the space agency.

The NASA science missions that would be axed in Trump’s 2026 budget Deep cuts would upend missions to study other planets and Earth itself.

GOP Senators Push Back on NASA Budget Cuts Plus: President Trump’s second attempt to bar international students from Harvard is blocked by a federal judge.