Huffington Post: 'Space Guy' Jeb Bush Would Increase Funding To NASA

By Igor Bobic, Jul. 8, 2015, Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- If elected president in 2016, Jeb Bush would propose an increase in funding to NASA.

"I'm a space guy," Bush said in a Wednesday sit-down with the New Hampshire Union Leader's editorial board.

The former of governor of Florida, where a large portion of the country's aerospace industry resides, said he would also support increasing federal spending on research and development.

The Obama administration proposed a half-billion dollar increase to NASA's budget earlier this year, totaling $18.5 billion for fiscal year 2016. That request could run aground in the Republican-controlled Congress, where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a presidential candidate and the chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Competitiveness, feels that a reordering of the space agency is in order.

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