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In President Donald Trump full 2018 budget request to Congress he called for deep cuts to numerous research agencies. This would cut the spending to the NIH by 22%
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Alan Burdick discusses President Trump’s proposed 2019 science budget, which includes cuts to a wide range of government-funded efforts, from disease prevention to climate-change research, and examines the Administration’s poor track record with fact and truth.

Billions of dollars in additional funds for scientific research, including renewable energy research, earth systems observations and sea level monitoring were tucked inside the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending measure that passed on March 23, but the Trump Administration is still working to gut environmental regulations.

The proposal is to simply kill the great dreams of space and the Universe that have driven the USA forward for so long.

Proposed reductions in environmental and scientific agencies could have big impacts, from the Great Lakes to public health. Here’s what it means.

WASHINGTON (February 12, 2018)—President Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2019 budget is yet another sign of this administration’s hostility to scientific research and technological development across
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