Let’s face it, the US budgeting process is largely broken. The current budget year, fiscal year 2022, began back on October 1. This year is now nearly half gone, and the US Congress has yet to pass a budget for it.
To handle this situation federal agencies, including NASA, have kept their doors open with a series of “continuing resolutions” that more or less keep funding at the level of previous years. These provide stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown.
