NASA backs Trump budget blueprint with $6B cut to agency

President Donald Trump unveiled a budget blueprint last week that includes roughly $6 billion in federal funding cuts to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 

Despite the multibillion-dollar slash, a senior official at the space agency told Fox News Digital that the reduction in funding is actually beneficial for efficiency and exploration.

"The reductions in the President's blueprint budget counterintuitively represent an opportunity to truly innovate in how we conduct our space missions," senior NASA official Ryan Whitley told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement. 

"Now is the time to reduce the bureaucracy at NASA and turn our attention to the execution of bold new human missions to the Moon an...