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FY 2026 Map of Workforce Cuts by NASA Center

Infographic map showing that the FY 2026 White House budget would cut 20 – 46% of civil-service positions at every NASA field center across the country.

NASA's ten field centers host the agency's civil servant workforce. The FY 2026 White House budget proposes to slash staffing to levels not seen since 1960, with deep cuts applied nationwide. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) workforce is not government employees, so they are not included here, though the lab's workforce would almost certainly shrink in this proposal.

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