NASA Faces More Budget Cuts in Last-Minute Spending Package

Dan Leone, Space News Staff Writer

Date: 16 December 2011 Time: 04:59 PM ET

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NASA administrator Charlie Bolden at NASA's Fiscal Year 2012 budget briefing on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. CREDIT: NASA/Bill Ingalls

WASHINGTON — NASA stands to lose an additional $325 million under the omnibus spending package headed to the U.S. Senate for a final vote.
A disaster relief bill the House approved Dec. 16 along with the 2012 Final Consolidated Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2055) includes a 1.83 percent across-the-board cut for all nondefense related discretionary spending, including NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a number of other federal agencies previously funded in the so-called minibus spending bill Congress enacted in November. The across-the-board cut, or rescission, is crafted to pay for some $8 billion in disaster relief spending.
"The rescission does apply to us," NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said Dec. 16. “We estimate the cut would take us to around $17.4 billion.”
The minibus included $17.8 billion for NASA, or about $650 million less than the agency received for 2011.

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