President Obama with Acting Director of Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey Zients.OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY PETE SOUZA
President Obama released his proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year earlier this week (April 10). It has some scientists cheering, but others are disappointed. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, overall Obama is proposing to increase science spending. The new budget includes $33.2 billion in total for basic science research (up by 4 percent over the fiscal year 2012 budget) and $143 billion for research and development (up by 1.3 percent since 2012).
The White House compared the proposed 2014 budget to the 2012 budget because effects of spending cuts to the 2013 budget due to sequestration are still being calculated. Obama said during his announcement of the budget that he hoped it would help ease the “foolish across-the-board spending cuts” of the ...
