White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the nomination of billionaire commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as his next NASA administrator.

White House officials had previously raised concerns about Isaacman’s past donations to Democrats as justification for the president’s personnel move, but various industry insiders and Republican aides say those donations should have come to light earlier in the vetting process, especially after the Washington Examiner reported on them in January.

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