Congress May Shift Climate Research Away from NASA

According to “Scientific” American, (which I hear is gunning for Trump and continually pushes global warming pseudo-science):

Lawmakers are remaking NASA in order to leave parts of the agency’s earth science program untouched but remove its climate change research

Exactly how they come to this statement is unclear, because I watched the congressional hearing on NASA myself and although there was a clear consensus to focus effort on going to the Moon and/or Mars there was almost nothing said about its propaganda work on climate.
Like me  “Scientific” American are left guessing and can only refer to what was said at the hearing:

At a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing yesterday, Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said he wants a “rebalancing” of NASA’s mission. The lawmaker told E&E News he wants the agency to reprioritize its mission because the Obama administration cut space exploration funds.
Specifically, that could mean NASA’s work on climate change would go to another agency, with or without funding, or possibly would get cut. Smith and other Republicans avoided laying out specifics but acknowledged that earth science at NASA would likely face some significant changes in the near future.
“By rebalancing, I’d like for more funds to go into space exploration; we’re not going to zero out earth sciences,” he said. “Our weather satellites have been an immense help, for example, and that’s from NASA, but I’d like for us to remember what our priorities are, and there are another dozen agencies that study earth science and climate change, and they can continue to do that. Meanwhile, we only have one agency that engages in space exploration, and they need every dollar they can muster for space exploration.”

My guess, given the previous appalling behaviour of Hansen and Gavin Schmidt in NASA; the way they seem to have personally led the charge against various republicans and scientists who now have a direct line to Trump; the ongoing atrocious adjustments, and the way Gavin Schmidt is making no attempt to reign in the comments on Twitter, Gavin seems to already know NASA climate is for the chop.
Likewise, I think NOAA are going to have its wings clipped and a few encouraged to use their talents elsewhere.
However, unless there is some plan for a dramatic re-organisation and the creation of some new credible organisation for global climate data, a likely home for NASA’s old work is NOAA. But also quite possible is that NASA’s old climate work is outsourced to some university or private institute which would do the work on a contract basis.