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Election 2008

Election 2008: Freezing NASA

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
April 15, 2008

McCain unveils his economic plan

“The plan is centered around a one-year freeze in discretionary spending — with the exception of military and veterans programs — to allow for a “top-to-bottom review of the effectiveness of federal programs.” “‘Discretionary spending’ is a term people throw around a lot in Washington, while actual discretion is seldom exercised,” McCain said. “Instead, every program comes with a built-in assumption that it should go on forever, and its budget increase forever. My administration will change that way of thinking.”

Editor’s note: In other words McCain would apparently limit NASA’s budget for FY 2010 to what it is going to end up being for FY 2009 – based on (I would guess) whatever budget level contained in any budget (or CR) enacted this Fall. That’s not going to be good for Ares, Orion, or many other things …

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