It seems that the latest wave of cuts in the US federal program fuel by the Trump administration has affected NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) lab in New York City, which is a branch of the agency dedicated to study climate change and other earth sciences.
Friday (April 25), News Outlets Like CNN And Spacecraft It was reported that the lease of Gis at the office space has been canceled in a building at Columbia University in the upper waste side of Manhattan. According to Spacenews, Goddard employees were sent on 24 April and signed by Mechanji Listrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland (GISS), said the lease would end on 31 May. The news outlet states that the cost of the lease was originally $ 3.03 million.
However, GISS director Gavin Schmid assured CNN that “work is going on, data, product, science will continue because science is performed by people, not by buildings.” So far, NASA states that employees will be “placed on temporary distance work agreements, while NASA searches and evaluates options for a new location for the GISS team.”
Listrup is reportedly stated that the expiration “relates to the current administration of all government leases,” Spacenuse said about the contents of the email obtained, but it is not clear whether the Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) led the matter. It is worth considering what role Dogge had to play in the decision as the department is behind many other changes in NASA, led by SpaceX billionaire founder Elon Musk.
For example, Doge’s employees have recently been given significant access to agency systems and documents without clear disclosure of their workflow – to destroy some politicians due to the potential threats of national security and the conflict of interests (due to the role of Spacex as a frequent provider of services launched for NASA).
There have also been reports of lease cancellation of Gisses amidst several other changes of Dogge as a combination with the Trump administration, such as variety, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs as well as a sudden pruning in the name of saving a sudden pruning of thousands of federal workers in the name of saving a sudden pruning “was destroyed. ,
Reports are also broadcasting the budget “passback documents”, which the White House plans to cut NASA’s science budget by about 50%, which can lead to heavy results under the guise of in-development missions like Goddard Space Flight Center and in-development missions such as the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Also note that the GISS strap was specifically canceled. Not only does it deal with Earth science projects that fall under the umbrella of NASA science programs that are probably in danger, but it also focuses on climate change research, which the Trump administration specifically targets.
For example, more than 800 workers in the US National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) were suddenly terminated in March, and the general decision of the White House is called aligned with a policy laid by a policy place placed by a conservative think tank, called the Heritage Foundation. Heritage foundation Describes noaa Being part of the “Climate Change Alarm Industry” and for this it is called to demolish it and its weather forecast operations fully commercialize.
