{"id":28792,"date":"2025-05-31T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28792"},"modified":"2025-05-31T21:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:24:51","slug":"trump-to-withdraw-musks-ally-as-nominee-for-top-nasa-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28792","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Withdraw Musk\u2019s Ally as Nominee for Top NASA Job"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jared Isaacman was a close associate of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX company has multiple contracts with NASA.<\/p>\n

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President Trump plans to withdraw his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and close associate of Elon Musk\u2019s, who was on track to be the next NASA administrator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump told associates he intended to yank Mr. Isaacman\u2019s nomination after learning that he had donated to prominent Democrats, according to three people with knowledge of the deliberations who were not authorized to discuss them publicly. It was the latest example of loyalty as a key criterion for administration roles.<\/p>\n

The U-turn comes at a fraught moment for the space agency. NASA has so far been spared the deep cuts that have hit the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and other federal research agencies. But the Trump administration\u2019s budget proposal for 2026 seeks to slice the space agency\u2019s budget<\/a> by one-quarter, lay off thousands of employees and end financing for a slew of current and future missions.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration also wants to overhaul NASA\u2019s human spaceflight program, ending the Space Launch System rocket<\/a> and Orion crew capsule initiatives after the Artemis III mission<\/a> that is to land astronauts on the moon in 2027 and adding money to send astronauts to Mars<\/a> in the coming years, something that had been a priority for Mr. Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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People inside and outside NASA had hoped that Mr. Isaacman\u2019s arrival as administrator would help provide stability and a clearer direction for the agency, which has been operating under an acting administrator since the beginning of Mr. Trump\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jared Isaacman was a close associate of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX company has multiple contracts with NASA.President Trump plans to withdraw his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and close associate of Elon Musk\u2019s, who was on track to be the next NASA administrator.Mr. Trump told associates he intended to yank Mr. Isaacman\u2019s nomination after learning that he had donated to prominent Democrats, according to three people with knowledge of the deliberations who were not authorized to discuss them publicly. It was the latest example of loyalty as a key criterion for administration roles.The U-turn comes at a fraught moment for the space agency. NASA has so far been spared the deep cuts that have hit the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and other federal research agencies. But the Trump administration\u2019s budget proposal for 2026 seeks to slice the space agency\u2019s budget by one-quarter, lay off thousands of employees and end financing for a slew of current and future missions.The Trump administration also wants to overhaul NASA\u2019s human spaceflight program, ending the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule initiatives after the Artemis III mission that is to land astronauts on the moon in 2027 and adding money to send astronauts to Mars in the coming years, something that had been a priority for Mr. Musk.People inside and outside NASA had hoped that Mr. Isaacman\u2019s arrival as administrator would help provide stability and a clearer direction for the agency, which has been operating under an acting administrator since the beginning of Mr. Trump\u2019s term.The Trump administration wants to overhaul NASA\u2019s human spaceflight program.Steve Nesius\/ReutersWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28794,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28795,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions\/28795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}