Over 2,100 senior NASA employees are set to leave amid workforce cuts and budget tightening under Trump, as leadership uncertainty and tensions with Elon Musk disrupt the agency's direction.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.

NASA will soon be facing a major brain drain as more than 2,000 senior employees prepare to leave the agency amid a push to reduce its workforce. Some 875 NASA workers work at the highest level of government and in managerial or specialized positions,