From the article:

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$2.7 billion by deferring the start of several planned new missions, including the Global Precipitation Measuring Mission, solar terrestrial probes and Beyond Einstein, a group of planned astronomy missions designed to investigate the origin and nature of phenomena like dark matter and black holes. In addition, spending on several Earth Science missions and Sun-Earth Connection missions will be held flat through 2009
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Under Bush’s request, NASA’s 2005 Earth Sciences budget would drop $41 million to $1.485 billion in 2005. The decline is set to continue through 2008 before bumping up slightly to $1.474 billion in 2009.

Weren't a number of us here predicting that earth-science would be the big loser, other than the shuttle/ISS themselves? Looks like that's about right, that plus basic physics, which would have been my #2 guess.

(True, there is $6bn "cut" from OSP and Next-Gen Launch, but that's all transferred to CEV and related programs -- it's all still in vehicle development, just renaming the pot)

By the way, it's worth noting that the nuclear systems funding had a lot of trouble getting through Congress this time -- I think it was cut substantially. Expect it to be chopped dramatically this time around, too.

It's also worth noting that from the political commentary I follow, outside of a few well-known space enthusiasts and those members of Congress whose districts will benefit, the reaction to the space initiative has been resoundingly negative from both liberals and conservatives. Here in New Hampshire, it was a standard laugh line from the democratic candidates, and those few voters who mentioned it were usually doing so in a disaproving way.