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A draft budget proposal would end support for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025. The U.S. was previously committed to operating at the ISS until 2024:
The Trump administration is preparing to end support for the International Space Station program by 2025, according to a draft budget proposal reviewed by The Verge. Without the ISS, American astronauts could be grounded on Earth for years with no destination in space until NASA develops new vehicles for its deep space travel plans.
The draft may change before an official budget request is released on February 12th. However, two people familiar with the matter have confirmed to The Verge that the directive will be in the final proposal. We reached out to NASA for comment, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
Also at the Wall Street Journal.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday January 26 2018, @02:49AM (5 children)
New headline, "US ends support for Trump Administration by 2021".
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @03:31AM (4 children)
We can use congress to keep him in a box until then. But the odds keepers all still say that reelection rates will hold around 90-95%.
And right now Trump is the Darling of Davos.
We live in a sick world.
Our social security is in real danger.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday January 26 2018, @04:33AM (3 children)
I will just assume you are a boomer and address you as such.
Your social security is at stake, as a millennial I have never been under the false impression it will still be there for me. When I got hired to work for the state of oregon my boss told me not to count on my pension, social security, or my matched retirement to still be there based on chicago being able to weasel out of their agreements. I invest on my own and stack up assets to sell at a later date, to assume there will be anything left to America after the boomers wring it dry and die off is just insane.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @05:11AM (2 children)
Don't give me your crybaby bullshit. All contracts were signed and funds were secured. We have every right to expect them to be honored. We are entitled to our earned benefits. Yes, you are a typical millennial that refuses to acknowledge such things. And it's you people wringing the country dry with your weak ass democrats taking our money to bail out the banks and refusing to protect our, and even your own earned pensions. So take your whiny little ass back to your basement or cubicle, whatever, but don't touch what isn't yours.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday January 26 2018, @03:47PM (1 child)
We have every right to expect them to be honored. We are entitled to our earned benefits.
You being entitled to something because of contracts doesn't mean squat when the government decides to renege.
Yes, you are a typical millennial that refuses to acknowledge such things.
You're being stupid. He's not refusing to acknowledge that, he's acknowledging *reality*: regardless of the legal issues, those funds will probably not be there by the time he retires, or maybe even when you do. It's not his doing, it's yours: your generation is the one that succeeds the most at the polls, and chooses most of our leaders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @07:31PM
Nice blame passing there! How is it my fault if you people don't go out and vote?! And the people you vote for are just the same old democrats and republicans anyway. So you know where you can stuff it! This is what causes all our problems.