The fiscal year 2018 budget blueprint released Thursday morning features, as expected, a $54 billion boost in defense spending, but it also trims NASA’s budget by roughly 1 percent, according to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney.Mulvaney told reporters Wednesday the federal government’s overall budget would not add to the deficit, which he said would total $480 billion for FY ’18. The additional $54 billion for defense, he said, would result in $54 billion in reductions elsewhere.…
