I understand there's always room for rightsizing and analysis of staffing and those kinds of things, but this is not a gotcha question. I'm puzzled why the administration would cut by one third the funding of one of the most important agencies that we have in terms of direct interface with the public?
Senator King questioned the rationale behind the budget cuts.
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The implication of that is that Elon Musk decides what we are going to fund and what we aren't. And that's really what worries me about what's going on.
What’s going on is the destruction of the agency from the inside out, and it’s accelerating.
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