Obama's 2016 NASA Budget Status Quo, Funds Europa Mission

MarkWhittington writes The Washington Post reported that the NASA portion of the president's 2016 budget proposal is basically status quo though it does provide further funding for a mission to Europa. A Europa probe is near and dear to the new chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that funds NASA, Rep. John Culberson. However, the $18.5 billion budget proposal also funds the asteroid redirect mission, which has come under increasing fire from both Congress and the scientific community. The Houston Chronicle suggested that the final spending bill will be considerably different once congressional Republicans get through with it.

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it'll get slashed in half as usual

[ihtoit]

while the military spend of the US clears $800Bn - making it yet again the single largest military spender in history, outspending every other nation combined.

BTW when an increase doesn't keep pace with inflation + the CPI over the same period (which 5% doesn't, and providing that 5% counts annually it's short by about 0.2 for 2013/12-2014/12), then it's a cut.

Re:Too early to be discussing the contents

[dywolf]

Your idiocy is showing.

1- They aren't legal loopholes. A law previously passed by Congress that gives the POTUS authority to act is NOT a legal loophole. It is simply the exercise of powers already granted.

2- He isn't flooding the country with illegal immigrants. No POTUS in history has cracked down as hard on immigration as he has. In his first term alone he deported more people the in the previous 12 years. Furthermore, net immigration across the Mexican border has actually been negative for the past two years.

3- He is the POTUS. He IS the head diplomat of the country. HE SETS FOREIGN POLICY.

4- What you said about taxes is a blatant lie. The taxes proposed are wholly on the upper classes and business.

What's truly frightening isn't how uninformed and detached from reality you are,
nor even that you still vote despite that ignorance,
but that people modded you insightful, which means you aren't the dumbest one here.