Bill Nelson: “Mr. Whitaker, tell us about the progress that you can make with the extra funding that the administration has requested.”

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.