Trump’s Proposed Budget Slashes NASA’s SLS Rocket And Lunar Gateway, Climate, And Health Research

The Trump administration’s continuous attack on science has been consolidated in the administration’s proposed Discretionary Budget Request, released Friday, May 2, which slashes budgets across many agencies and institutions, ranging from space, climate, education, and health, while increasing spending on defense. The approach the new administration has taken to halt and defund scientific research is purportedly to reset research priorities and save billions of dollars. However, research has shown that in the United States, $1 of investment in innovation produces an average return of $5. The Trump administration proposes cutting at least $36,132,000,000 from science-based agencies and institutions, which could…