In today’s newsletter: Regulating the private space industry; what’s happening at USAID; how much it costs to fund school building repairs; and more from our newsroom.
The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents.
Heather Vogell, who wrote today’s feature on the Federal Aviation Administration’s commercial spaceflight office, is continuing to report on this topic throughout the year, and she’s looking for tips about space traffic management, the proliferation of satellites or space debris and more. Learn more about how to contact her and our other reporters covering the federal government.
“It is a catastrophic privacy and information security violation for a band of some government and some nongovernment personnel to barge into an agency and take over systems that contain personal information.”
The administration did not respond to our reporters’ questions about USAID, but the White House has previously defended DOGE’s efforts as legal and executed with appropriate security clearances.
