He's got an opportunity here. You know, he can fund these programs, they can be successful. He can claim and take a victory lap maybe at the end of his administration. Or He could let NASA, you know, just kind of die along with other science that only the United States has been able to do. You know, some other nation isn't going to pick up the kind of scientific research that we do at places like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or the NIH and universities. (07:12–07:21)
CLAIM
Asserts that NASA and U.S. scientific research are at risk of decline without proper funding.
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