The White House has proposed a 23% cut to NASA's science budget, with President Donald Trump also proposing significant cuts. The proposal includes a billion-dollar boost to the agency's moon-focused Artemis program, but also cuts to the science budget by nearly 50%. This proposal raises questions about how space agency leadership intends to execute on its vision of sending humans to explore the cosmos, while simultaneously gutting the research efforts supporting the US's leadership in scientific endeavors. The Planetary Society criticized the proposal, stating it undermines the milestones NASA has recently celebrated, including the imminent Artemis II lunar flyby and the near-completion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Other NASA initiatives, including maintaining and launching a replacement for the International Space Station, are left in limbo by the proposal.