Now we enter the part of the FY20-21 cycle when the House and Senate must pass appropriations bills and eventually enact a final set of appropriations. The numbers listed in the table are in units of billions of dollars.Īfter the PBR is submitted, Congress writes a budget that is then signed by the President, as happened last month with the two-year budget deal for FY20 and FY21. PBR stands for Presidential Budget Request, i.e., the President’s proposed budget, which is typically submitted in the first week of February the preceding year. Table: NASA FY19 operating plan in comparison to FY19 and FY20 budgets. Let’s start by looking at what NASA is expected to spend in FY19. In this article I will cover the FY19 operating plan for NASA and the current state of its budget for FY20. NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are required to submit operating plans to Congress for approval that they have “met the letter and intent of the legislation and explain any changes that needed to be made.” You can learn more about the processes I will be covering in this post from a previous AAS Policy blog entry by Ashlee Wilkins, my predecessor as AAS John N. (Yes, you read that right: Agency managers have received their final spending allocations for FY19 less than two months before the fiscal year ends.) An operating plan outlines the agency’s spending. Meanwhile, Congress recently approved FY19 “operating plans” for NASA and NSF. You can follow this process in some detail via appropriations trackers updated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and/or the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Given other pressing issues, it is likely that Congress will enact a temporary continuing resolution (CR) that temporarily extends current funding levels until they can agree on bills for 2020. The Senate returns to session on 9 September and will have only three legislative work weeks to introduce and vote on these appropriations bills. The Senate Appropriations subcommittees have not released any drafts of appropriations bills because senators and staffers were waiting for the topline spending numbers to be finalized in the budget deal, which didn’t happen until 1 August.
The House of Representatives already passed 10 of the appropriations bills before leaving Capitol Hill for August recess. Congress almost never passes these bills by the end of the previous fiscal year (i.e., 30 September 2019 for FY19). This budget does not appropriate discretionary funding for individual agencies and programs - that is accomplished with 12 separate appropriations bills that state which priorities and programs agencies will fund. 1158 provides $510.7 million for WFIRST and $120 million for the Office of STEM Engagement.A two-year budget deal covering fiscal years 20 (FY20 and FY21) was signed into law on 2 August. Notably, Congress rejected the Trump administration's proposal to cancel the WFIRST program, and close the Office of STEM Engagement. That includes $7.14 billion in funding for space science, an increase of 3.4 percent or $233 million over FY2019 levels.
1158 provides $22.6 billion in funding for NASA in FY2020. 1158 - the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - into law. On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed H.R. “Consistent with prior budgets, the Budget provides no funding for the WFIRST space telescope, two Earth science missions, and the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement.”
The budget proposal indicates that funds will be transferred from “lower priority science and education programs to higher priorities.” In particular: While total funding for NASA would increase, several key research programs would face cuts. The proposal would increase funding for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by $283 million or 1.4 percent compared to FY2019 levels. On March 11, 2019, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Trump Administration’s proposed budget for the U.S.
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