Returning to Earth has always been “a significant challenge” for his body, Pettit said from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Earlier this year, the Department of Government Efficiency, created by Presidentand run by Elon Musk, had targeted federal agencies for spending cuts, including
MSHA offices. Seven of those offices were in Kentucky alone. Ending the MSHA leases had been projected to save $18 million.his job as a senior adviser.A statement released by a Labor Department spokesperson Thursday said it has been working closely with the General Services Administration “to ensure our MSHA inspectors have the resources they need to carry out their core mission to prevent death, illness, and injury from mining and promote safe and healthy workplaces for American miners.”
Some MSHA offices are still listed on the chopping block on the DOGE website, but the statement did not indicate whether those closings will move forward.MSHA was created by Congress within the Labor Department in 1978, in part because state inspectors were seen as too close to the industry to force coal companies to take the sometimes costly steps necessary to protect miners. MSHA is required to inspect each underground mine quarterly and each surface mine twice a year.
“That’s a relief and good news for miners and the inspectors at MSHA,” said Jack Spadaro, a longtime mine safety investigator and environmental specialist who worked for the agency.
have dropped significantly, in large part because of the dramatic decline in coal production. But the proposed DOGE cuts would have required MSHA inspectors to travel farther to get to a mine.La ofensiva ha destruido vastas áreas de Gaza y desplazado a un 90% de su población de aproximadamente 2 millones de palestinos; cientos de miles viven en tiendas de campaña en condiciones precarias y en escuelas sin usar.
Hamás está muy debilitado militarmente y ha perdido casi todos sus líderes en Gaza. Es probable que tema que liberar a todos los rehenes sin asegurar un alto el fuego permanente permita a Israel lanzar una campaña aún más devastadora para destruir finalmente al grupo.Israel teme que un alto el fuego duradero y una retirada ahora dejarían a Hamás con una influencia significativa en Gaza, incluso si renuncia al poder formal. Con el tiempo, Hamás podría reconstruir su poderío militar y eventualmente lanzar más ataques al estilo del 7 de octubre.
Netanyahu también enfrenta restricciones políticas: sus socios de coalición de extrema derecha han amenazado con derribar su gobierno si termina la guerra demasiado pronto. Eso lo dejaría más vulnerable a la persecución por cargos de corrupción de larga data y a investigaciones sobre los fracasos en torno al ataque del 7 de octubre.Una resolución más amplia del conflicto israelí-palestino, que lleva décadas, parece más distante que nunca.