((Hill– NASA reduces nearly 20 percent of its working power as part of President Trump Efforts to reduce its size Federal government Since the return To the White House.
Nearly 4000 workers asked to leave the space agency within two rounds of Delayed resignation program. The deadline of the program was on Friday in the middle of the night.
In the first round, about 870 employees advanced to departure and about 3,000 other workers who did this in the second round – which reduces the workforce from 18,000 to about 14,000 people.
The agency said the total number also includes 500 lost workers due to normal attrition.
“Safety is still a maximum priority for our agents, as we balance the need to become a more simplified, more efficient and working organization to ensure our survival are completely able to follow a golden era of exploration and innovation, including to the moon and Mars,” a NASA spokesman said in a statement.
Suggest budget from the White House, Absolute In May, it would reduce the total NASA budget by 24 percent. The upper line number will decrease from $ 24 billion to $ 18 billion.
More than 360 NASA employees sent a message to the employer earlier this month, urging them not to make deep discounts, and warned that he would have “severe” consequences.
“We are forced to speak when our leadership gives the priority of political momentum on human safety, scientific progress, and the effective use of public resources.” books. “These discounts are arbitrary and have been enacted in a challenge to the Approvals Law in Congress.”
The deferred resignation program has been created throughout the federal government by Trump Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Dog) l Cut The size of the federal workforce, reducing costs, waste, fraud and abuse.
NASA faced the turmoil earlier this year as president The first choice For the agency’s director, technical businessman Jared Ishaqan was, Pulled In late May, days before he was appointed to a confirmation vote.
Soon after, Trump and billionaire technology Elon Musk – which was Senior Adviser For his before Leave White House – was General fall.
Trump later Its exploitation Saying that the Minister of Transport Sean Duffy is the interim official of NASA, saying earlier this month that the former legislator in Wisconsin is “a tremendous work in dealing with transportation affairs in our country, including the creation of monitoring systems for modern air movement, and at the same time rebuilding our roads and bridges, making them effective, and again.”