Trump cuts NASA top science and technology roles – DW – 03/11/2025

In an email viewed by the Reuters News Agency and reported, NASA’s acting administrator, Janet Petro, told employees March 10 that three offices would be closed. Ketreen Calvin And chief technician AC Charnia.

The closure will affect 23 employees in the office of the Chief Scientists, Science, Policy, and Strategy’s Office, and the Diversity and Equality and Equal Opportunity Office.

These deductions are seen as part of President Donald Trump’s new administration’s performance campaign, who returned to office in January.

Trump’s previous executive orders include withdrawal from the World Health Organization and a reduction in US development aid through USAID.

Implementing Trump’s executive orders

Petro said in an email that NASA is working with government officials to enforce Trump’s executive orders, in which, among other things, government agencies were instructed to reduce their work and reorganize them. Trump has signed 87 executive orders Since taking power on January 20.

In addition to deductions, the US government has directly targeted scientific works. On March 9, the US military said it would cancel more than 90 scientific studies in the defensive threats posed by climate change.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegast said in a post on X that the Department of Defense “does not reduce climate change.”

Earlier this month, one -third of the National Ocean and Women’s Administration Office of Space Commerce was laid.

The chief scientist did not do unprecedented

Calvin was appointed by President Joe Biden’s former administration in 2022 as the chief scientist of NASA with a special focus on climate change.

NASA has been the chief scientist since 1982. His role is to advise the agency’s administrator and, as the American Association of Advancement of Science describes it on March 10, “Keep the sound of science.”

But the character is not always full. Earlier, in the years of 1997-1999, under President Bill Clinton, during 2005-2011, President George W. Bush and Barack Obama and in 2017, once again remained vacant under Obama.

Edited: Fred Schwoller