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Posted to Newt Gingrich’s website:
On June 5, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams went to the international space station for an eight-day visit. They now face an eight-month stay. This debacle has brought long overdue attention to Boeing’s and NASA’s incompetence.
However, this failure also belongs to Vice President Kamala Harris. She is the Chair of the National Space Council. For her entire vice presidency, Harris has done the bare minimum required by law as chair of the council and has been totally uninvolved in the policy process.
As a result of Vice President Harris’s lack of leadership, NASA has regressed back into bureaucratic timidity. Huge Boeing contracts have continued to absorb money – despite repeated failures and no tangible results. Boeing’s Starliner program was awarded a $4.5 billion contract and later given an additional $300 million.
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One would think that as a former House Speaker, Gingrich would know that NASA’s budget is approved by Congress, specifically the House Appropriations Committee. (That’s a joke, of course he motherfucking knows.)
The committee’s current chairman is GOP Rep. Tom Cole. Additionally, the above-cited $4.5 billion contract was awarded in 2014 under the leadership of GOP Speaker John Boehner. GOP Rep. Hal Rogers was chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in 2014.
They are Vice President Harris’s abandoned astronauts. If she had done her job and held Boeing accountable, they would be home.https://t.co/8OT14ZGJBG
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) August 28, 2024