WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, unveiled his legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill. The Commerce Committee’s reconciliation language will reduce deficits by more than $40 billion over a decade, rescind more than $1.4 billion in wasteful spending, revitalize the American economy, improve the nation’s transportation infrastructure, strengthen national...| U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
Posted: June 5, 2025 7:12 pm ET | Last Updated: June 6, 2025 2:57 pm ET | President Trump and Elon Musk's feud over the reconciliation bill has escalated into Trump threatening to end Musk's government contracts and Musk responding that he will begin right now by decomissioning the Dragon spacecraft needed to keep the International Space Station operating.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: May 22, 2025 9:01 pm ET | Last Updated: May 22, 2025 11:12 pm ET | The House passed the reconciliation bill on May 22, 2025 that includes $25 billion for Trump's Golden Dome missile defense system that includes space-based intercptors. But the head of the U.S. Space Force is warning that his service is already under-resourced and has lost 14 percent of its civilian workforce.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: June 1, 2025 5:04 pm ET | Last Updated: July 8, 2025 2:35 pm ET | President Trump sent his full budget request to Congress on May 30 detailing the $6 billion cut he is proposing for NASA. The scope of the cuts to everything except human spaceflight is difficult to grasp. Meanwhile., Trump also withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administration, keeping the agency in limbo.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space| NASA
