White House Wants $26 Billion For NASA In FY 2023
Budget summary for @NASA in FY 2023
“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) inspires the Nation by sending astronauts and robotic missions to explore the solar system, advances the Nation’s understanding of the Earth and space, and develops new technologies and approaches to improve aviation and space activities. The President’s 2023 Budget for NASA invests in: human and robotic exploration of the Moon; new technologies to improve the Nation’s space capabilities; and addressing the climate crisis through cutting-edge research satellites and green aviation research.
The Budget requests $26 billion in discretionary funding for NASA, a $2.7 billion or 11.6-percent increase from the 2021 enacted level.“
FY 2023 NASA Budget Information, NASA
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So … that’s essentially a flat budget in inflation-adjusted terms, right?
Can we skip the 2022 entry in “Let’s pretend the Presidential Budget Request means anything” kabuki theater? We got enough going on in the world.
We all know how this story ends. Congress ignores the PBR entirely. It doesn’t even read it. It when writes its own budget using last year as a baseline.Most everything gets plussed up a little. The budget is one of continuity. Rinse, repeat.
It’s been the same story for 20 years, particularly in the post-earmark era. There is absolutely no reason to take this, any prior, or any future PBRs seriously.
So just not go through the ritual of winners and losers in a budget request document that doesn’t remotely reflect the next actual budget, okay?
yeah when was the last time congress used a PBR as any sort of guidance for the full year CR’s ( that congress eventually pass after a few short term CRs from october through january or later timeframe)
I think you’d have to go back to the early Bush years when there was a focus on war needs, retooling for the War on Terror, and reorganizing government as a response to 9/11 (Department of Homeland Security). And maybe parts of the 1990s too. That’s how far back. Since then, Congress has uniformly ignored PBRs. This is especially true since the end of earmarks in 2011, which lead to “not-earmarks” just being baked into the budget. It gave Congress even less incentive to give the President what he wants.
To Biden’s credit, this year’s budget is the lead work of fiction of any President going back to Bush. Because both Obama and Trump had PBRs that were grounded in utter fantasy. This one, isn’t really fanciful, so much as it just makes strange choices that probably aren’t good ones. That’s more difference of opinion than whatever Obama and Trump’s budgets were.
I’d love them to get it, although Congress is so stingy with funding increases for NASA that’s unlikely to be more than a billion or so.
So that’s 20 billion for Boeing and LM?