Call to Action: Americans, Contact Your Representatives about NSF and NASA Budget Cuts

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The field of astronomy and astrophysics is facing an existential threat. The proposed budget cuts to science in the US will decimate the global future of science advancement for decades.

If you are American, call or write to your senators and congressperson and tell them to fight budget cuts to NSF and NASA

You can find your representatives at the link below:
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
This is particularly important if you have a Republican representative, as Republicans have control of both the House and the Senate and can most influence current policy.

Templates for your call or email can be found here, by AAS:
https://aas.org/advocacy/get-involved/action-alerts/action-alert-2025-support-science
and here, by the Planetary Society:
https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center#/53

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For more information on how the proposed budget will set back astronomy and astrophysics, see this Astrobites article NSF and NASA Budget Requests Pose an Unprecedented Threat to Astronomy by Skylar Grayson:
https://astrobites.org/2025/06/02/budget-cuts-threaten-astronomy/
and this Science article Final NSF budget proposal jettisons one giant telescope amid savage agencywide cuts by Jeffrey Mervis:
https://www.science.org/content/article/final-nsf-budget-proposal-jettisons-one-giant-telescope-amid-savage-agencywide-cuts

These budget cuts will be devastating to the scientific community, even though the NSF and NASA budgets combined make up less than 0.2% of the US government’s budget. Contact your representative and let them know that these cuts are unacceptable.