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The White House proposed cutting NASA's FY2026 budget by 24%, from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion, targeting science missions, the SLS rocket, and the Gateway lunar station while eliminating a third of the workforce. Congress ultimately rejected nearly all the proposed cuts, enacting a $24.4 billion budget — but the episode exposed deep tensions over the future of American space exploration, the balance between military and civilian space spending, and U.S. reliability as an international partner.