Although many of the hikes are less than what the Biden administration had requested, the draft legislation calls for a boost in spending for agencies like NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy.

Senators raise concerns about how Eric Lander of the Broad Institute has handled equality issues.

The president’s request for next year’s federal budget includes a 7 percent drop in funding for the National Institutes of Health and reductions for other science agencies.

The legislative package for 2020 allots $25 million for gun-violence research, which has been on hold for more than two decades.

A spending bill approved by a House committee would require the agency to “accelerate” the replacement of nonhuman primates in laboratories starting in October.

The draft budget includes deep cuts for science funding, hacking more than $5.5 billion from the NIH’s allotment, but historically Congress has not accepted the White House’s proposals.

NIH, NSF, and the DOE’s Office of Science will be among the agencies with budget increases if the omnibus bill is passed.

Congress has increased discretionary spending caps, making it possible that the budgets of US science agencies will rise this fiscal year.

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An analysis of President Trump’s proposed $7.2 billion slash to the National Institutes of Health budget points to dire consequences for the development of novel drugs.

The $1.23 trillion budget includes an increase in NIH funding, but the package is unlikely to make it unscathed through the Senate.

The proposed spending increase in the draft bill is more generous than that in the House version.

The NIH budget, the nature of science, paternal age, and more

A House bill would also bar funding for research with fetal tissues.

According to a document posted online less than a day before the release of the official 2018 budget proposal, the National Institutes of Health could face even deeper cuts than previously suggested by the Trump administration.

Both Democrats and Republications criticize the Trump administration’s plan to cut funding for biomedical research.

USDA posting few animal inspections; HHS secretary proposes cutting indirect research expenses; science journalism vs. fake news

The secretary of Health and Human Services argued that the biomedical research-supporting agency’s budget includes unnecessary expenses. 

Cuts to federal science funding could significantly impact undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and other early-career researchers.