As House Republicans sit down to write their fiscal 2024 spending bills, appropriators are vowing to protect defense, veterans and border security funding from cuts. Some are pushing to add another spending category to the protected list: NASA.
While the space agency has long seen bipartisan support in Congress, Republican plans to slash spending to the fiscal 2022 topline level of $1.47 trillion mean $131 billion in cuts have to come from somewhere.
But some Republican appropriators say they’re aiming to carve out NASA, which received $25.4 billion for the current fiscal year in the December omnibus package.
