Trump’s Steep Science Budget Cuts to Be Turned Back by Congress
The New York Times••nation
Key Points:
- Congress is moving quickly to reverse President Trump's proposed cuts to federal science funding, which would have reduced the budget from $198 billion to $154 billion, a 22 percent decrease.
- The Senate Appropriations Committee introduced a bipartisan bill package that largely rejects these cuts, aiming to allocate approximately $188 billion for federal research, representing only a 4 percent reduction from the current budget.
- Analysts view this congressional pushback positively, noting a potential increase of over 2 percent in funding for basic research, despite the Trump administration's previous proposal to cut this area by more than one-third.
- The National Science Foundation, targeted for a 56 percent budget cut by the Trump administration, would see its funding nearly maintained at $8
