Regardless of stories citing a number of company sources, extensively anticipated NASA layoffs didn’t happen. The company should still see some “probationary” civil servants let go, as has been the case with different federal businesses. And the Houston Chronicle reported that Johnson House Middle workers had been advised they had been exempt from the “impending layoff plan.” Practically 3,000 federal workers work at Johnson House Middle.
That reprieve should still be non permanent. White Home advisor Elon Musk has been main this DOGE cost-cutting initiative, and he himself not a fan of the Artemis mission to return to the moon, which can depart people related to that effort twitchy about their future.
On this week’s political roundup, we ask our consultants what they make of this widespread expectation of layoffs and last-minute reprieve as we focus on the newest developments in native, state, and nationwide politics.
This week we search perception from Jeronimo Cortina, a College of Houston political scientist and co-host of Occasion Politics, and Nancy Sims, a political analyst and UH lecturer.
Among the many different subjects they focus on this week:
- The impact a possible elimination of federal funds may have on a Houston water facility that must be rebuilt
- A federal choose denying a bid from 14 states to halt DOGE and Musk’s work
- Musk falsely stating thousands and thousands of lifeless individuals obtain social safety checks, and that some exit to 150-year-olds
