The NASA Glenn Research Center, long considered the crown jewel of Northeast Ohio’s scientific community, faces a potentially devastating future under Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts.

In what Today in Ohio described as Trump’s war on science and intellectual pursuits, the administration’s plan would slash NASA’s overall budget by nearly 25 percent, with particularly severe impacts on the Brook Park facility.

“This is a gut punch for Northeast Ohio,” Leila Atassi explained. “Trump just proposed, or the administration just proposed, slashing NASA’s budget by nearly 25 percent. And that would mean some major cuts. At the NASA Glenn Research center in Brook Park, we’re talking about losing more than 550 full time jobs at Glenn alone, cutting the workforce from nearly 1,400 people down

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