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Senators warn NASA against going 'woke' — Inside the best space stories of the week

Has NASA become too 'woke'? Short answer: No, of course not.

Longer answer: At a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday, two GOP senators, Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took issue with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and what Schmitt described as “misguided woke policies related to climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion” set forth by the Biden administration.

“Looking at this year’s budget request, I see things like $22 million for the quote ‘Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity,' which has little to do with what you have called a space race between the free world and China,” said Cruz in his opening remarks.

“I can assure you that China has no interest in out DEI-ing us, and they’re not intimidated at all by this divisive, radical policy that’s found its way in this budget,” said Schmitt.

Nelson didn’t directly respond to either of those comments, perhaps because he didn’t need to. NASA has struggled with diversity for a long time, but it's no secret that NASA owes some of its greatest achievements to its diverse workforce — there’s an Oscar-nominated movie about the Black women who did the math to get us safely to the moon the first time around. It’s possible that Schmitt hadn’t heard the story, but Cruz definitely has — he even helped introduce a bill to honor the women in 2018 and was there when NASA officially renamed the street in front of its headquarters "Hidden Figures Way" in 2019.

Reference article 1: https://news.yahoo.com/nancy-pelosi-roasted-over-trump-083229719.html

Reference article 2: https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/criminal-defense/is-the-presumption-of-innocence-in-the-consti.html

Note 1: Per reference article 1, former Speaker Pelosi released a statement saying that “No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence…”

Note 2: Choose the answer-option that most closely matches your response to this question — which is…

”Isn’t it VERY SAD & TROUBLING that former US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi does NOT know that people are "innocent until proven guilty"?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-defends-putin-biden-visits-014523554.html
Trump Defends Putin as Biden Visits War-Torn Ukraine

Donald Trump on Monday night touted his great relationship with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin and defended his past assertion that he trusted the foreign leader over his own intelligence community.

“Putin never, ever would have gone into Ukraine if I were president,” Trump told supporters at a Florida rally. “I actually had a very good relationship” with Putin.

The former president spoke to a crowd of fans for a Club 45 event thrown at the Hilton Palm Beach Airport hotel on the night of Presidents’ Day.

“Remember when [the media] hit me with a question: ‘Who do you trust: … your intelligence people, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Lisa Page (how about Lisa)? Or Putin?’ And I said: You know, that could be the toughest question I’ve ever been asked as a politician. And then when I really didn’t give them a very good answer in terms of exactness … oh, all hell broke loose. But that’s okay, you know, that’s okay. And it turned out I was right. I was right about that, too.”

Trump in 2018 was asked whether he believed the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election or Putin’s denial that he had. Trump equivocated and seemed to suggest he believed Putin. “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today,” Trump said.