Only enough to get 3 out of 53 Republican Senators to vote against it. That's a few percent. Not enough to stop it, which is what matters
They never really cared about that. The modern anti-abortion movement was dreamed up after pro-segregation churches lost that battle and needed something else to fixate on.
They're not doing anything like dismantling the telescopes; just stopping a tiny instrument that is mounted near them from being used.
The idea is to force people to pay for private forecasts
Im taking this down because its misinfo.
If this bill passes in its current form, yes
Because most of it would show up as having been written by corporate lobbyists
They are trying change things, but there's a good chance basic stuff like measuring CO2 concentrations would continue normally with a nonzero budget
The Republicans are pretty uniformly in favor of that part.
They had a corps of competent people with civil service protections who were getting paid out of that budget. They avoided committing fraud during the first Trump administration
If they even have a home country
When someone has been in the US for decades, and now has no real ties to where they were born, deportation is often a death sentence
Be nice if she had made the flip before voting for the bill instead of after