Comments on: So, it is official https://www.habitablezone.com/2025/06/06/so-it-is-official/ Tue, 12 May 2026 20:11:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BuckGalaxy https://www.habitablezone.com/2025/06/06/so-it-is-official/#comment-54099 BuckGalaxy Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:20:47 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=106539#comment-54099 <a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-begins-push-to-slash-workforce-with-more-staff-buyouts-early-retirements-as-budget-cuts-loom" rel="nofollow">NASA employees have until July 25 to decide if they'll stay or go.</a> Why TF is NASA doing this now when the budget cuts have not even made it through the Senate, and if they do, whatever Senate revisions back through the House again? We don't even know if the Big Disgusting Bill will ever become law. Remember Build Back Better getting axed after many months of negotiations because Manchin got a stick up his ass? NASA heads need to back off until we see what actually happens. NASA employees have until July 25 to decide if they’ll stay or go.

Why TF is NASA doing this now when the budget cuts have not even made it through the Senate, and if they do, whatever Senate revisions back through the House again? We don’t even know if the Big Disgusting Bill will ever become law. Remember Build Back Better getting axed after many months of negotiations because Manchin got a stick up his ass?

NASA heads need to back off until we see what actually happens.

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://www.habitablezone.com/2025/06/06/so-it-is-official/#comment-54097 BuckGalaxy Sat, 07 Jun 2025 21:36:24 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=106539#comment-54097 If Musk's Kill the Bill effort succeeds, republicans will have no time or political capital left to do anything but a continuing resolution. That won't prevent all the damage but it will prevent a lot of it. In the Citizens United era all it takes is one "Musk" to buy the votes in congress to block the Big Hideous Bill. Make it fucking so! Why Democrats aren't screaming at the top of their lungs about this is criminal political negligence? They should be making daily promises to restore across the board funding to all these reckless idiotic cuts in science and government. If Musk’s Kill the Bill effort succeeds, republicans will have no time or political capital left to do anything but a continuing resolution. That won’t prevent all the damage but it will prevent a lot of it. In the Citizens United era all it takes is one “Musk” to buy the votes in congress to block the Big Hideous Bill. Make it fucking so!

Why Democrats aren’t screaming at the top of their lungs about this is criminal political negligence? They should be making daily promises to restore across the board funding to all these reckless idiotic cuts in science and government.

]]> By: ER https://www.habitablezone.com/2025/06/06/so-it-is-official/#comment-54094 ER Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:32:11 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=106539#comment-54094 Oh, RL. I am so sorry. Oh, RL. I am so sorry.

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