Nearly 4,000 NASA employees are leaving under a Trump-era deferred resignation program, reducing the agency’s workforce by 20% amid growing concerns over budget cuts.

NASA employees and allies protested sweeping science cuts they say are gutting the agency from within. As Congress pushes back on NASA leadership, workers warn the damage is already underway — and the future of U.

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President Donald Trump recommended Congress cut funding to NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification & Validation Facility in Fairmont by two thirds. NASA’s 2026 discretionary budget request takes the IV&V facility’s budget from $43 million to $13 million.

Overall, Trump's proposed budget and the version approved by the U.S. House in late May call for cutting NASA's workforce by a third, and its science funding almost by half.

As NASA faces the threat of US$6 billion in cuts under President Donald Trump’s budget request, one astronomy expert says Canada will certainly feel the impact if the drastic financial reductions go through.

NASA’s workforce is undergoing one of its largest reductions in decades, with nearly 4,000 employees choosing to resign through a deferred departure program backed by the Trump administration.

NASA is slashing nearly more than 20 percent of its workforce as part of President Trump’s efforts to downsize the federal government since returning to the White House. Nearly 4,000 workers have requested to depart the space agency through two rounds of the deferred resignation program.