White House Opposes Aeronautics, Education, Science, increases – threatens Veto

“Because Congress has failed to demonstrate such a path, if H.R. 3093 were presented to the President, he would veto the bill. …

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – The Administration supports the House’s full funding for NASA’s Exploration Systems and Space Shuttle. However, the Administration does not endorse funding in excess of the request for Aeronautics, Education, and Science, where increases for near-term support would create unsustainable outyear funding requirements. The Administration also strongly objects to reductions to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Continuation Project that would reduce the future system availability of critical space communications capabilities for NASA and other partner agencies. The Administration further objects to the proposed establishment of several new appropriations accounts in FY 2008, that are not necessary and would adversely impact NASA’s financial management system, processes, and controls.”

IFPTE Letter Regarding Consideration of H.R. 3093

Editor’s note: The White House is backing Griffin’s push to burn every spare piece of firewood at NASA that he can find so as to keep one program going i.e. Ares 1 – and to do so at the expense of the remainder of NASA’s chartered portfolio. And the sad hilarity of it all is that the White House now claims to be concerned about the future consequences of spending more on aeronautics, education, and science.They are apparently blind to the effects their decisions have already had on the agency’s future i.e. they promised big bucks for VSE, then they did not deliver, then they drained money from elsewhere to pay VSE’s mounting bills — and now they balk when someone (Congress) tries to rectify the problem the White House has created.