White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation

Somewhere, over the next few weeks, the director of federal agencies will receive a draft version of the budget request of President Trump for the upcoming financial year, which begins on October 1. This “transition verification” is a standard part of the federal budgeting process, which ends in the congress of the budget and the president signed it in law.

The budget request will be the first of the second term of President Trump, and he will offer a clear window in the priorities of his new administration. Although widespread reductions are expected for most of the government’s discretion expenses, the prospects of the National Scientific Fund, which are visible, especially gloomy.

During the emotional meeting on all the comprehensive circulation on Tuesday, the assistant director of the agency’s engineering, Susan Margulis, told the agency’s employees to expect that within a quarter and a half of his employees it will be dismissed over the next months, reports E&E News.

On Thursday, two sources informed ARS that a scientific agency should expect cool abbreviations in the upcoming Trump budget request. In recent years, the National Scientific Fund has received an annual budget of approximately $ 9 billion, that the vast majority of which have been spent on research and research related to research and research. Reductions can be 66 percent, and one person indicates that the number of the highest level budget for the National Scientific Fund can begin from $ 3 billion.

Such a mass reduction does not go beyond the proposal made by Rousse Viut to the budget for 2023 financial year as part of its center for updating America. It is expected that Vouught will become the director of the White House budget in the coming days. Three years ago, Vouught proposed reducing the budget of the National Scientific Fund to 3.9 billion dollars. He wrote that the abbreviations will require NSF “to make the best decisions and target grants for real research that will benefit the whole country, and not only promote the ideology of branching.”