It absolutely isn't the first line that it's a directive from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It just says "The White House wants..." A

It absolutely isn't the first line that it's a directive from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It just says "The White House wants..." Again, "The White House" is often a metonym for the US government. [1] I'm not sure why it didn't bother mentioning the Office of Science and Technology Policy. If I had realized that's where it came from, instead of from NASA, I wouldn't have mentioned it. 1. "Metonymy is a figure of speech where the name for one object or concept is substituted for another, related one (as in the White House for the US Government)" https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/metonymy-vs-synecdoche https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/metonymy-vs-synecdo...