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https://spacenews.com/new-spending-caps-to-create-challenges-for-nasa/

> How those new spending caps will affect spending for individual agencies remains uncertain, since the cap is not an across-the-board measure. Appropriators will get allocations for each of 12 spending bills, such as the commerce, justice and science bill that includes NASA, and then determine how to distribute that funding among various agencies and departments.

> “We do have to face the reality of the debt limit ceiling agreement and what might happen to our 2024 budget request,” said Pam Melroy, NASA deputy administrator, during a June 7 joint meeting of the National Academies’ Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Space Studies Board. “We recognize that it’s unlikely we will get the full request, and we know that’s going to create challenges for us in the future.”

> “I think it’s fair to say there will be stress,” she said, such as the ongoing concerns about budgets for science missions. “This will be challenging.”