The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff,

Armed with leverage over the future of President Donald Trump’s policy agenda and little faith in Congress, Republican fiscal hawks are holding the White House’s feet to the fire to force deep federal budget cuts.

President Donald Trump’s proposed annual budget for NASA next year would nearly cut in half the agency’s science funding, while potentially cutting off money for other major initiatives like returning soil from Mars and a new space telescope,