Science News StaffThe massive $1.4 trillion spending bill that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law early this morning once again reverses the deep cuts the outgoing president had proposed for most science agencies.
Even so, the modest hikes for 2021 have left the research community wanting more.The final budget package includes increases of 3% for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2.5% for the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2.3% for NASA science, and 0.4% for the Department of Energy (DOE’s) science office.
Those numbers (see details below) put the cherry on top of 4 years of robust growth under Trump despite his persistent attempts to eviscerate federal science budgets.NIH’s budget now stands at $42.9 billion, a 33% rise.