Trump’s latest budget request gives scientists a fright
Plans to slash science funding bodies by around 30% in 2019 headed off by Congress
America’s science community was relieved to narrowly dodge massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) that were proposed by the White House. However, significant concern remains about how the nation’s research agencies and programmes will fare under the 2019 spending plan released by the Trump administration on 12 February. The president originally sought to shrink the NIH budget for 2019 by $9.2 billion (£6.7 billion) – a reduction of almost 28%.