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You’re already all too familiar with the cuts to science funding proposed in the Trump Administration’s budget outline for the next fiscal year — billions less for science by EPA and NIH. This week, we learned the administration wants to cut research and education funding basically right now. Congress needs to pass a budget resolution to fund the Federal government for the rest of the current fiscal year, and the administration has already been, um, rearranging spending priorities
The $18 billion in total cuts from discretionary spending bills is reportedly offsetting the $30 billion in supplementary increases in defense spending and spending on the border wall with Mexico. (Though it’s not entirely clear that the wall will be part of the supplemental defense budget.)
Yeah. Congress should probably hear what you think about this, wouldn’t you say?
