NIH, DOE Office of Science face deep cuts in Trump's first budget

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Source: Science

President Donald Trump's first budget request to Congress, to be released at 7 a.m. Thursday, will call for cutting the 2018 budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $6 billion, or nearly 20%, according to sources familiar with the proposal. The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science would lose $900 million, or nearly 20% of its $5 billion budget. The proposal also calls for deep cuts to the research programs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and a 5% cut to NASA's Earth science budget. And it would eliminate DOE's roughly $300 million Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).

There appears to be no mention, however, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in a 62-page document outlining the proposal obtained by the Washington Post. NSF's budget request may not become clear until the White House fleshes out the details of its spending plan over the next two months.

The NIH proposal is drawing deep concern from biomedical research advocates. "A $6 billion cut to [NIH] is unacceptable to the scientific community, and should be unacceptable to the American public as well," said Benjamin Corb, public affairs director of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Rockville, Maryland, in a statement. "President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2018 spending plan erases years' worth of bipartisan support for the NIH, and the American biomedical research enterprise which has long been the global leader for biomedical innovation. Cuts this deep threaten America's ability to remain a leader. It is of grave concern to the research community that President Trump's budget proposal – which would fund the agency at a 15-year low – values investments in defense above all other federal expenditures."

Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/nih-doe-office-science-face-deep-cuts-trumps-first-budget

[Turbineguy]

1. He'll probably give the money to the DOBS

[DeminPennswoods]

2. Like Trumpcare, this budget is DoA

Since the WH doesn't actually appropriate money, this budget isn't going anywhere.

[Bluepinky]

3. Who needs science?

Trump's brain stem does his thinking.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Making America Great Again(TM)

[Matthew28]

5. More like make American stupid

And that is exactly what this will do...Make us weaker, poorer and move us backwards.

[MBS]

9. Exactly.

This is not even in our self-interest. This is not "America First; " this is "Ignorant, bigoted Americans First."

[Fast Walker 52]

6. oh this is war-- those cuts are fucking insane

I assume Trump's budget will never happen because the congressional GOP is not that dumb, but this is so stupid and evil, it's beyond belief.

[joshdawg]

10. Well, shucks, drumpf has to pay for those enormous tax cuts he's proposing

for the 1%ers some way, doncha know.

[LisaL]

11. And of course he needs the money for his wall. Since Mexico won't pay for it and all.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Site to find a March For Science near you, Earth Day April 22

https://www.marchforscience.com/

Here are the satellite marches as of March 16th:

[MBS]

8. I was already planning to go to the March. But now I will be there,

loudly and visibly, no matter what.I've ordered my sweatshirt, I will be there. Nothing now will stop me. Nothing.

[LisaL]

12. That money pays for a lot of jobs.

How many jobs is Trump going to lose under his budget proposal?

[angrychair]

14. Don't worry

He will create 10 coal jobs and 3 cloth face mask making jobs and trump tie making jobs for every scientist and teacher fired...tanks and and aircraft carriers and cars made in Michigan will now run on coal and everyone will be employed and America will be white...I mean great again and everyone will stand in front of their TV and praise Emperor Trump and I mean praise them all bigly.

[packman]

13. Each cut means a few more feet for the wall

It's going to be great, huge, beautiful

[angrychair]

15. Ouch

A part of my brain died. Every time someone mentions the wall a part of our brain dies...