Trump taps transportation secretary Sean Duffy as acting NASA chief

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Among the unprecedented budget cuts and scattered trim, US President Donald Trump has appointed transport secretary Shan Duffi as the acting NASA administrator.

Trump says In a post On his social media site, true social.

“Shan is doing a great job of conducting the transport issues of our country, in which a sophisticated aircraft is to rebuild our roads and bridges, making them efficient and beautiful,” Trump said, “Trump said,” Trump said, “Trump said.

The appointment is extremely unusual. There is no NASA leading head of the point of charge, or even interim on an interim. Histically, NASA administrators were generally former innovators, long -time NASA bureaucrats, former CongressPols or military elders.

Duffy has no formal background in science or place, though the dot oversees the Federal Aviation administration, which monitors commercial space transport and air traffic control. Since he will play the role of both leadership at the same time, his NASA term will probably be concentrated on the implementation of Trump with Trump.

These goals include a wide range of NASA budget, which will probably reduce many science initiatives and reduce its workforce steadily. These cuts as spelings in the White House “One Beautiful Bill” will reduce the agency’s funds by 25% and reduce the headcount by 5,000.

Duffy’s appointment came a few weeks after Trump suddenly withdrawn the nomination to the NASA administrator, Jared Ijacmann, a billionaire entrepreneur. Isaacman, who had fate from his company Shift 4 payment, had flown twice in space on the private SpaceX mission. Trump said that he had withdrawn support after “fully reviewing the previous companies” quoting the donation of Democratic candidates and quoting Billionaire’s close relationship with SpaceX CEO Elon Mask.

Trump’s disaster on Isaacman led to the onset of relationships between President and Kasturi.

Trump said, “I also think that I am inappropriate that Elon’s very close friend of Elon is running NASA, while NASA is such a large part of Elon’s corporate life,” Trump said In a separate True Social Post.

Duffy replaces the long -term NASA bureaucracy to Janet Petro, director of the Kennedy Space Center. It is unclear how long he will stay in the position.

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