President Obama signs legislation on Jan 3, 2012.FLICKR, CHARLES MCCAIN
On Monday (February 13), President Obama released his budget request for the 2013 fiscal year, totaling $3.8 trillion. In the science sector, he requested a 1 percent increase in research spending across the board.
However, as economic policy columnist Ezra Klein noted in the Washington Post, “Like the 2012 budget, [the 2013 budget] has no chance of being adopted by Congress.” Nevertheless, here’s how the various science-related agencies would fare if the science budget were approved as written.
