PIXABAY, 12019Yesterday (February 12), President Donald Trump’s administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2019—just days after Congress passed a deal to increase discretionary spending caps. The proposal calls for cuts to some science agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while maintaining or boosting funding for others.
Under the proposed budget, funds for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would remain at roughly the same level as in 2017. Trump’s plan also includes adding three new agencies within the NIH, Nature reports: Two existing agencies, the National Institute of Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, would be transferred over to the NIH from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and from the CDC, respectively; and a new National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality would replace HHS’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
“We are. . . concerned that the president’s budget would fold the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) into the ...
