ABOVE: WIKIMEDIA, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
In the 2021 budget request sent to Congress yesterday (February 10), President Donald Trump has requested that the National Institutes of Health’s budget drop from more than $41 billion this year to $38.7 billion, a 7 percent cut, and that the National Science Foundation’s budget drop by 6 percent to around $6.3 billion, Science reports.
Science advocates are not pleased. “The administration’s proposed budget cuts to research risk slowing our nation’s science just when it is reaping benefits for all Americans in the forms of better health, a stronger economy, a more sustainable environment, a safer world, and awe-inspiring understanding,” Sudip Parikh, the chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), tells The Washington Post.
Among other items on the chopping block, the number of new NIH research grants would drop, Ross McKinney, the chief scientific officer for the ...
