Fwd: This Week: FY18 Spending Bill Near Finish Line as FY19 Budget Hearings Begin / National Lab Leaders Testifying / Energy R&D Bills Advance in Senate

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: FYI <fyi () aip-info org>
> Date: March 12, 2018 at 12:00:48 PM EDT
> To: farber () central cis upenn edu
> Subject: This Week: FY18 Spending Bill Near Finish Line as FY19 Budget Hearings Begin / National Lab Leaders 
> Testifying / Energy R&D Bills Advance in Senate
> Reply-To: FYI <re-1ZJN-5IJ2N-E29DH7-C0JBB () aip-info org>
>
> R&D Funding Rhetoric in White House Report Clashes with Reality
> The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report last week detailing “science and technology 
> highlights” of the Trump administration’s first year. In the foreword to the report, OSTP states that President Trump 
> has “demonstrated his commitment to the importance of Federal scientific exploration” by requesting $151 billion for 
> R&D programs in fiscal year 2018, an amount which the office claims is a 2 percent increase over fiscal year 2017 and 
> represents the highest fraction of the federal budget devoted to R&D since fiscal year 2014. However, a fact check by 
> the American Association for the Advancement of Science concludes that these claims are “mostly untrue.” AAAS notes 
> that the 2 percent figure does not take into account the large R&D funding increase that Congress provided in final 
> appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and that the administration’s proposed increases were primarily for late-stage 
> defense technology programs that are no longer officially classified as R&D. Despite the administration’s stance that 
> early-stage R&D should be prioritized, the proposed budget would have cut overall funding for basic research by over 
> 15 percent.
>  



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