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Mark Kelly: “In 2017, [Trump] started a program to take American…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Senator Mark Kelly Discusses Democratic Party Challenges, Gaza Crisis, and NASA Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 06:36

We built industries through the investment in science, including with NASA. And the president is undercutting his own, his own programs. In 2017, [Trump] started a program to take American astronauts back to the moon, to put them there permanently to grow an economy on the surface of the moon. And now his own budget undercuts those efforts. I was with Sean Duffy, who's going to be the temporary NASA administrator just last week and we talked about, like, where … (06:36–06:46)

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Asserts that Trump started a program in 2017 to establish a permanent presence on the moon.

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