Trump administration reportedly plans to fire 2,145 NASA employees | Trump administration

this Trump administration It is reported that it is planned to cut at least NASA senior staff with specialized skills or management responsibilities.

According to the document Obtained by Politicomost of the employees who leave are in senior government positions, deprived of decades of experience, which is part of the size of the federal government by early retirement, acquisitions and deferred resignations.

These documents indicate that 1,818 employees currently serve in core mission areas such as science or human space flight, while others work in mission support roles, including information technology or IT.

When asked about the proposed cuts, agency spokesman Bethany Stevens Tell Reuters: “NASA remains committed to our mission as we work within a more prioritized budget.”

Since Trump returned to his office in January, planning for the U.S. space industry and layoffs and layoffs in NASA’s 18,000-person workforce have been in chaos, which will cancel dozens of scientific plans.

Last week, seven former heads of NASA’s Science and Mission Bureau signed a joint letter in a 2026 budget proposal condemning the White House’s proposed 47% cuts to NASA’s science activities. exist This letterThe former official urged the House Appropriations Committee to “maintain the U.S. leadership in space exploration and reject unprecedented cuts in space science by White House budget director Russ Vorge.”

“The economics of these proposed cuts ignore a fundamental truth: NASA’s investment in science has and is a powerful driver of U.S. economic and technological leadership,” the letter reads. “In our former leadership role in NASA’s space science enterprise, we have been seeing skilled teams innovate in the face of impossible goals, including landing car-sized rovers on Mars with precise accuracy, building a huge telescope that can unfold in space to uncover the universe, design and one thousandth of a speed to radiate enough speed to keep many people at good speed and able to maintain good speed. In the magnificent image of Hubble, the world inspired young and old people space Telescopes and pioneered the use of small satellites for scientific use. ”

They also warned that the cuts threatened to cede US leadership to China: “Global space competition extends far past Moon and Mars exploration. The Chinese space science program is aggressive, ambitious, and well-funded. It is proposing missions to return samples from Mars, explore Neptune, monitor climate change for the benefit of the Chinese industry and population, and peer into the universe – all activities that the FY 2026 NASA budget proposal indicates the US will abandon.”

NASA also has no confirmed administrator, because Trump administration Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman suddenly withdrew his nominee Elon Muskhe made the nomination.

In a social media post attacking Musk on Sunday, Trump wrote that he thought it was “inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who works in space business, ran NASA when NASA was a big part of Elon’s life.”