Updated: Science would suffer under Trump’s 2020 budget
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Rebecca Trager2019-03-12T19:45:00
White House budget proposal would deliver significant blow to US research, but Congress is expected to intervene
The Trump administration’s 2020 budget blueprint released yesterday is bad news for US science agencies – but on past experience not unexpected. The proposed budget would slash funding for the National Science Foundation by roughly 12% to $7.1 billion (£5.4 billion), and the National Institutes of Health’s budget by at least 12% to anywhere from $33 billion to $34.4 billion, according to analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).