NASA's VERITAS Venus mission faces budget cuts while JPL receives billions for solar system research.

NASA has pulled funding for the VERITAS mission to Venus, which was on track and on budget, to accommodate other missions facing cost overruns. The 2024 proposal allocates a $1.5 million shoestring budget to VERITAS, a severe drop from NASA's projected $56.7 million. The limited funding keeps the mission's science team intact but disbands its entire engineering wing. Most of the anticipated funding will instead be used to fund other missions that are currently exceeding their initial budgets. The VERITAS team argues that the delay is longer than what can be justified by the reasons given.