Senate Rejects Trump’s Cuts to NSF, Other Science Agencies

Senate Rejects Trump’s Cuts to NSF, Other Science Agencies

The Senate committee also protected the National Weather Service staff from mass layoffs. But a fight over the FBI has left the bill in limbo. Signs that Congress intends to push back on the Trump administration’s wholesale slashing of federal budgets emerged during a Senate meeting Thursday that kicked off the annual appropriations process.

Trump Budget Guts Scientific Research

William J. Broad, science writer for The New York Times, reports on the Trump administration’s draconian cuts to scientific research. As the U.S. cuts back on investments in basic research, China is increasing its spending. I invite anyone who reads this to try to explain why this administration is reducing spending on scientific research. Broad writes: President Trump’s budget plan guts federal science funding for the next fiscal year, accordin…

Senate Appropriators Poised to Reject Proposed NASA Budget Cuts, But…

The Senate Appropriations Committee met today to vote on three appropriations bills including the Commerce-Justice-Science bill that funds NASA. As presented by the CJS subcommittee, the bill would reject the deep cuts to NASA’s budget proposed by President Trump, but an unrelated matter — the location of the new FBI headquarters — prevented the bill from being approved. The committee recessed without taking a final vote so the bill is in limbo …