More like this I haven't heard anything about Trump's potential pick for a NASA administrator since November. On the one hand, the JWST isn't earth science, so it isn't likely to be in republican gun sights for immediate killing. On the other, I can't imagine any NASA program is going to be safe this year, or that NASA's overall budget will increase. :( Hopefully sane heads will prevail and be able to convince congress that underfunding the project *now* will just likely lead to greater cost and schedule overruns later, so it (underfunding) is a bad deal. By eric (not verified) on 10 Jan 2017 #permalink