Trump's budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: March 16, 2017 at 1:23:10 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Trump's budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research
>
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> Trump's budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trumps-budget-would-slash-scientific-and-medical-research/2017/03/15/d3261f98-0998-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html
>
>      President Trump's budget calls for a seismic disruption in
>    government-funded medical and scientific research. The cuts
>    are deep and broad.  They also go beyond what many political
>    observers expected. Trump had made clear that he would target
>    the Environmental Protection Agency, but the budget blueprint
>    calls for a startling downsizing of agencies that historically
>    have received steady bipartisan support. The National
>    Institutes of Health, for example, would be cut by nearly $6
>    billion, about a fifth of the NIH budget.  The shock waves of
>    this blueprint will be felt far beyond the walls of government
>    bureaucracies. The scientific endeavor across America depends
>    to a large degree on competitive grants distributed by federal
>    agencies that face dramatic budget cuts. NIH uses only about
>    10 percent of its $30 billion budget for in-house studies;
>    more than 80 percent goes to some 300,000 outside researchers.
>    Investment in research and development has been seen since
>    World War II as critical to national prosperity and security.
>    But the Trump administration has signaled that
>    government-funded science, like government more broadly, has
>    become too sprawling.  The result is a budget that takes a
>    sharp bite out of some programs and kills others outright.
>    Those targeted for termination include an EPA program to clean
>    up the Cheseapeake Bay, the accident-investigating Chemical
>    Safety Board, and a NASA satellite program (long ago known as
>    the GoreSat, after the idea was promoted by then-Vice
>    President Al Gore) that monitors solar storms and Earth's
>    climate.
>
> - - -
>
> When cancer starts ripping apart his body, Donald Dump is going to
> wish he hadn't cut medical research. What a horrible, vile animal.
> Luckily, this sociopathic monster doesn't have the last say when it
> comes to the budget.
>
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