Impact Deficits turn the case NASA – Huge deficit squeezes NASA funding Moskowitz 11 (Clara, senior writer LiveScience Obama Freezes NASA's Budget at 2010 – “President Levels,” Space.com, 2-14, Obama administration has announced its 2012 budget request, which if approved would freeze The spending for NASA at 2010 levels and other federal agencies for the next fiscal year. The 2012 budget request allocates $18.7 billion for NASA, the same amount the agency received in 2010. That's about $300 million less than NASA received in the president's 2011 times today are very difficult fiscally, and we're going to live within a budget," budget request. "The NASA The administrator Charles Bolden said at a press conference today. "What we do has to be affordable, sustainable, and it has to make sense." move is part of an overall five-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending that the White House is fiscal realities we face require hard choices," President Barack Obama wrote in his proposing. "The statement on the new budget. "A decade of deficits, compounded by the effects of the recession and the has put us on an unsustainable steps we had to take to break it, as well as the chronic failure to confront difficult decisions, course. That's why my budget lays out a path for how we can pay down these debts and free the American economy from their burden." The new budget request applies to the 2012 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, 2011. This preliminary proposal, however, is likely to be modified by Congress.
Impact – Deficits turn the case NASA Huge deficit squeezes NASA funding Moskowitz 11 (Clara, senior writer – LiveScience “President Obama Freezes NASA's Budget at 2010 Levels,” Space.com, 2-14, The Obama administration has announced its 2012 budget request, which if approved would freeze spending for NASA and other federal agencies at 2010 levels for the next fiscal year. The 2012 budget request allocates $18.7 billion for NASA, the same amount the agency received in 2010. That's about $300 million less than NASA received in the president's 2011 budget request. "The times today are very difficult fiscally, and we're going to live within a budget," NASA administrator Charles Bolden said at a press conference today. "What we do has to be affordable, sustainable, and it has to make sense." The move is part of an overall five-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending that the White House is proposing. "The fiscal realities we face require hard choices," President Barack Obama wrote in his statement on the new budget. "A decade of deficits, compounded by the effects of the recession and the steps we had to take to break it, as well as the chronic failure to confront difficult decisions, has put us on an unsustainable course. That's why my budget lays out a path for how we can pay down these debts and free the American economy from their burden." The new budget request applies to the 2012 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, 2011. This preliminary proposal, however, is likely to be modified by Congress.