President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says | AAAS - The World's Largest General Scientific Society

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> President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says
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> Energy Department faces steep cuts in programs that fund research and development of advanced energy technologies. | 
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> President Donald Trump’s discretionary budget proposal would “cripple” the leading role the United States plays in 
> advancing science and technology and blunt the economic benefits the nation reaps from such innovations, said Rush 
> Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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> “The Trump administration’s proposed budget would cripple the science and technology enterprise through short-sighted 
> cuts to discovery science programs and critical mission agencies alike,” said Holt in a statement 
> <https://www.forceforscience.org/> issued after the White House released its fiscal 2018 discretionary budget plan on 
> March 16. “Investments in federal research and development (R&D) make significant contributions to economic growth 
> and public well-being.”
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> Holt pointed to the far-reaching implications of the proposed reductions in non-defense discretionary spending for 
> science and engineering programs spread across the federal government.
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> “The administration’s cuts threaten our nation’s ability to advance cures for disease, maintain our technological 
> leadership, ensure a more prosperous energy future and train the next generation of scientists and innovators to 
> address the complex challenges we face today and in the future,” Holt said.
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> It will be up to Congress to decide what aspects of the president’s discretionary budget plan to accept or reject as 
> it works through spending bills for fiscal 2018, Holt noted.
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> “Congress has a long bipartisan history of protecting research investments,” said Holt. “We encourage Congress to act 
> in the nation’s best interest and support sustainable funding for federal R&D – for both defense and non-defense 
> programs – as it works to address the FY 2018 budget.”
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> The budget plan proposes steep cuts at the National Institutes of Health, which funds biomedical research conducted 
> by the nation’s leading colleges and universities. The agency faces a $5.8 billion cut, a reduction that amounts to 
> about a 20% of its current $30.3 billion discretionary budget. AAAS has completed a full analysis 
> <http://www.aaas.org/news/first-trump-budget-proposes-massive-cuts-several-science-agencies> of the budget proposal. 
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> Department of Energy programs that employ one of the federal government’s largest group of scientists and engineers 
> would face a 17.9% decrease in programs including those that seek to advance energy production and conservation.
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> The budget plan also proposes to eliminate a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration program dedicated to 
> coastal management and marine research and education, an Energy Department project known as the Advanced Research 
> Projects Agency – Energy, or ARPA-E, that backs research into biofuels and batteries and a satellite program that 
> tracks the Earth’s climate and solar storms at NASA, which is otherwise largely spared the hefty cuts the plan 
> proposes elsewhere.
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> The White House’s discretionary spending plan covers about a quarter of the federal government’s $4 trillion annual 
> spending accounts. The administration has said it will send Congress a final budget proposal in May that is expected 
> to include specifics on mandatory spending accounts such as Medicare and Social Security, tax proposals and deficit 
> projections.
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> For additional information join AAAS for a live chat on what the president's budget request means for science on 
> March 22 at 1 p.m. EDT on the AAAS Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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> [Associated image: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of 
> Health (CC BY-NC 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/>)]


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