Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Cuts to Science

Congress Moves to Block Trump’s Deep Cuts to Science Funding - Los Cerritos Community News

January 12, 2026 Congress is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s proposed reductions to federal science spending, rejecting what would have been the largest pullback in research funding since World War II and signaling bipartisan support for protecting basic research. Earlier budget plans from the White House called for cutting overall federal science funding to about $154 billion from $198 billion, a reduction of roughly 22 percent. A…

Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

Congress is racing to undo thousands of cuts to federal science programs that President Trump called for last year when planning the government’s current budget. If enacted, the president’s bid for an overall cut in scientific funding to $154 billion from $198 billion — a plunge of 22 percent — would have been the largest reduction in federal spending on science since World War II, when Washington and the seekers of nature’s secrets began their …

Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Cuts to Science

“Congress is racing to undo thousands of cuts to federal science programs that President Trump called for last year when planning the government’s current budget,” the New York Times reports. “If enacted, the president’s bid for an overall cut in scientific funding to $154 billion from $198 billion — a plunge of 22 percent — would have been the largest reduction in federal spending on science since World War II, when Washington and the seekers o…

Congress is reversing Trump’s budget cuts to science

Surprisingly, analysts foresee a possible rise of more than 2 percent in the budget category known as basic research — the blue-sky variety that produces fundamental strides and spinoffs in fields such as health care and artificial intelligence. Last year, the Trump administration called for a cut…

Is Congress briefly awakening from hibernation?

This would be encouraging if it can pass: Congress is racing to undo thousands of cuts to federal science programs that President Trump called for last year when planning the government’s current budget. If enacted, the president’s bid for an overall cut in scientific funding to $154 billion from $198 billion — a plunge of 22 percent — would have been the largest reduction in federal spending on science since World War II, when Washington and t…