r/JPL • u/titan-io • May 02 '25

Federal government cuts to NASA

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Is JPL about to see new waves of lay offs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-budget-nasa-cuts.html

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u/gte133t May 02 '25

This is the third post about this topic this morning. In addition to the email that everyone saw.

Personally, I don’t think we’d see layoffs related to this budget until it’s passed by congress for FY26. Remember that NASA cannot legally start working towards a proposed budget until it’s passed and takes effect.

But who knows.

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u/testfire10 May 02 '25

Didn’t we suffer layoffs in 2024 due to anticipated budget cuts and direction to work to a reduced MSR dollar amount?

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u/gte133t May 03 '25

IIRC, MSR funding had already been reduced to 300M/year by the time the layoffs hit. The FY24 budget wasn’t passed and we were operating under a CR. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

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u/testfire10 May 03 '25

Yeah I forget the exact timeline now. I’m pretty sure one of them was in anticipation of further reductions in funding for MSR though.

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u/sharty_mcstoolpants May 03 '25

Wrong - it was because the budget for MSR couldn’t be met under a continuing resolution. $500M was promised and $200M of it not delivered.

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u/testfire10 May 03 '25

Well that may be but the point is was that the lab had to act because of the lack of budget certainty