{"id":32208,"date":"2025-07-21T12:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32208"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:24:54","slug":"hundreds-of-nasa-employees-condemn-trump-administration-cuts-in-public-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32208","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of NASA Employees Condemn Trump Administration Cuts in Public Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The signatories of the \u201cVoyager Declaration\u201d warned the space agency\u2019s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts that would halt many science missions.<\/p>\n

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A public letter from NASA employees<\/a> on Monday urges leaders of the space agency not to carry out deep cuts sought by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement and efficient use of public resources,\u201d the employees wrote in the letter. It is addressed to Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation, whom President Trump appointed this month as acting NASA administrator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cuts to NASA programs have been arbitrary and in defiance of priorities set by Congress, the NASA employees said. \u201cThe consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

NASA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The NASA letter<\/a> follows similar letters of criticism by federal employees at the National Institutes of Health<\/a> and the Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, said he welcomed respectful dissent, but the E.P.A. placed 144 employees who signed that agency\u2019s letter on leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re all scared that we\u2019re going to get laid off,\u201d said Monica Gorman, an operations research analyst at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. \u201cWe\u2019re scared of retaliation. We huddle in the bathroom. We go to the bathroom to talk to each other, and look under the stalls to make sure that no one else is there before we talk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Gorman is one of 287 current and former NASA employees who signed the letter, although more than half did so anonymously. More than 15,000 people work at the space agency. Prominent scientists outside of NASA, including 20 Nobel Prize winners, also offered their names in support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The signatories of the \u201cVoyager Declaration\u201d warned the space agency\u2019s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts that would halt many science missions.A public letter from NASA employees on Monday urges leaders of the space agency not to carry out deep cuts sought by the Trump administration.\u201cWe are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement and efficient use of public resources,\u201d the employees wrote in the letter. It is addressed to Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation, whom President Trump appointed this month as acting NASA administrator.Cuts to NASA programs have been arbitrary and in defiance of priorities set by Congress, the NASA employees said. \u201cThe consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire,\u201d they wrote.NASA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The NASA letter follows similar letters of criticism by federal employees at the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, said he welcomed respectful dissent, but the E.P.A. placed 144 employees who signed that agency\u2019s letter on leave.\u201cWe\u2019re all scared that we\u2019re going to get laid off,\u201d said Monica Gorman, an operations research analyst at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. \u201cWe\u2019re scared of retaliation. We huddle in the bathroom. We go to the bathroom to talk to each other, and look under the stalls to make sure that no one else is there before we talk.\u201dMs. Gorman is one of 287 current and former NASA employees who signed the letter, although more than half did so anonymously. More than 15,000 people work at the space agency. Prominent scientists outside of NASA, including 20 Nobel Prize winners, also offered their names in support.Read the NASA \u2018Voyager Declaration\u2019 Letter of DissentHundreds of current and ex-employees of NASA signed a formal dissent letter protesting the Trump administration\u2019s proposed cuts to the agency.Read DocumentWe 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":32210,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32208","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\/32208","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=32208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32211,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208\/revisions\/32211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}