Senate:
Research Agencies Cut Amid Budget Cap Debate Senate appropriators followed their House counterparts in protecting NSF and other agencies from steep White House - proposed cuts this week.
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► «Outrage has greeted a decision by the head of Australia's premier
research agency to
cut jobs and eliminate work in certain fields, including basic climate science,» Leigh Dayton wrote this morning at ScienceInsider.
In fact, they often face retaliation, as he did when District and federal
agencies cut his
research funding and tried to discredit his
research.
Outrage has greeted a decision by the head of Australia's premier
research agency to
cut jobs and eliminate work in certain fields, including basic climate science.
Its 2014 and 2015 budgets made debilitating
cuts to both basic and applied
research agencies, and
research - industry collaborations.
In comparison, the President's FY 2018 budget had proposed deep
cuts to
research agencies including NIH, DOE, and NSF.
A large proposed
cut to the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) could impact applied
research and the level of engagement in international activities, according to
agency budget documents.
President Donald Trump today signed into law a $ 1.3 trillion spending package that largely rejects deep
cuts to
research agencies proposed by the White House and, in many cases, provides substantial increases.
To make up for a federal deficit of more than $ 400 billion, the White House has ordered most civilian
research agencies to prepare for major budget reductions in the 2006 budget, including
cuts for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Hanging over the effective decrease in support proposed by the House of Representatives last week is the «sequester», a pre-programmed budget
cut that
research advocates say would starve US science - funding
agencies.
The
agency would also
cut $ 5 million from its next - generation weather model, slowing «the transition of advanced modeling
research into operations.»
Grants for earth science
research would be
cut, and NASA's Carbon Monitoring System, which Congress directed the space
agency to form in 2010, would be axed.
«Steep funding
cuts for the federal health
agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative
research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»
«Clear -
cut research priorities could accelerate a great many things, for instance, authorization by regulatory
agencies, reimbursement by payers, implementation in clinical practice, and ultimately the development of effective treatments.»
That plan called for deep
cuts to numerous
research agencies.
This
agency is on the
cutting edge of energy
research, not only in the United States but globally.
The Washington, D.C. — based group said in a statement: «The extreme funding
cuts to science
agencies and related programs included in the budget released today would harm America's
research enterprise and our nation's leadership in scientific discovery.
The proposal also calls for deep
cuts to the
research programs at the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and a 5 %
cut to NASA's earth science budget.
The
agency's Office of Integrative Activities, which supports cross-disciplinary
research, would have seen the largest
cut.
Some science and technology programs within
agencies would see their funds increase, but the administration recommends extensive
cuts to basic
research overall.
«We have worked very hard to help bring Arecibo to a state where we still have
cutting - edge
research there, but with NSF not having to make the same investment that we've made historically,» says James Ulvestad, acting assistant director for the
agency's mathematical - and physical - sciences directorate.
But in a confusing supplemental document, the administration rescinded its original plan for deep
cuts at many major
research agencies.
The good news for the
research community is that the 211 - to - 198 vote by the House largely rejects deep
cuts to science programs proposed by President Donald Trump earlier this year — and even calls for spending increases at a few
agencies, including $ 1.1 billion more for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The NOAA
cuts, at least as they are initially laid out by the administration, would be devastating to the
agency's scientific
research across multiple areas, said Erika Spanger - Siegfried, a senior analyst in the climate and energy program at the Union for Concerned Scientists.
Spanger - Siegfried said the proposed
cuts are already impeding the ability of scientists to perform basic scientific
research as the
agency grapples with how it can lose such a significant part of its functionality.
She said much of the federal scientific
research and data comes from multiple
agencies working together, so
cutting one will have a ripple effect.
The NOAA
cuts target the Office of Ocean and Atmospheric
Research, which conducts the bulk of the agency's climate r
Research, which conducts the bulk of the
agency's climate
researchresearch.
The results are «clear -
cut» and confirm the migration patterns researchers had supposed based on archeological evidence, says population geneticist Lounès Chikhi of the French national
research agency CNRS in Toulouse, France.
Congress gives National Institutes of Health a big boost and avoids
cuts to
research agencies sought by Trump
Cuts by the
agency could leave big gaps in
research into the health problems of the developing world.
Authorization bill would
cut climate and energy
research and reshape science
agency policies
Climate science
research and programs across several
agencies also avoided big
cuts that the administration had proposed.
Under DL 180, public
research agencies are for now exempt from the 10 %
cut in nonmanagerial staff mandated by Legge 133/08.
Although not
research related, the
agency's regulatory programs are
cut by $ 23.5 million.
After hearing rumors in Australia that there would be Aus $ 400 million
cut from the National Health and Medical
Research Council budget, researchers mounted a vigorous protest campaign that was successful in maintaining current spending for the major research a
Research Council budget, researchers mounted a vigorous protest campaign that was successful in maintaining current spending for the major
research a
research agencies.
The proposal also calls for deep
cuts to the
research programs at the Environmental Protection
Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and a 5 %
cut to NASA's earth science budget.
Last week, a coalition of universities and professional societies warned legislators working on the defense bill that «a mandatory increase in the SBIR - STTR allocation across federal
agencies will result in funding
cuts for investigator initiated, peer - reviewed grants that are the cornerstone of the nation's
research enterprise.
The Trump administration's fiscal 2018 budget proposal, which Congress must approve, would sharply reduce and in some cases eliminate funding for science programs at the Environmental Protection
Agency, climate - related science
research programs at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and
cut in half
research and development programs at the Energy Department.
The president's sweeping endorsement of
research, however, carefully avoids the fact that his 2013 budget would
cut funding for NASA's Mars exploration program by nearly one - third and end the country's role in two Mars missions planned jointly with the European Space
Agency for later in the decade.
NSF believes that having academics spend anywhere from 2 to 4 years at the
agency before returning to campus helps it identify and fund
cutting - edge
research.
Field notes that there will be «small decreases» in years to come for the publicly funded science
agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization (CSIRO), which in recent years has been hit with massive
cuts that resulted in extensive job losses.
«So it does give the appropriators some latitude in restoring the
cuts» to the National Institutes of Health and other
research agencies.
Instead, a bipartisan majority voted for a 3 - year freeze on the budgets for those
agencies; it also
cut all funding for DOE's new Advanced
Research Projects
Agency - Energy.
Chu said Arun Majumdar, who heads the department's Advanced
Research Projects
Agency - Energy, will fill Zoi's shoes while continuing to run ARPA - E, which funds so - called «high - risk, high - reward» projects to develop
cutting - edge energy sources.
Trump's renunciation of the 2015 Paris climate accord, the rollback of many environmental rules, proposed deep budget
cuts at key
research agencies, and the failure to appoint qualified scientists in many
research - related positions fueled the mistrust.
If the
cuts are realized, «you will totally undermine the ability of EPA and its
research arm to set standards at a level that science can rightfully be confident is protective of public health,» predicts William Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air
Agencies, a Washington, D.C., organization representing state and local air pollution agencies around the
Agencies, a Washington, D.C., organization representing state and local air pollution
agencies around the
agencies around the country.
«All American universities rely on scientific
agencies to fund academic
research, meaning
cuts to these budgets eliminate training in
research.
The
cuts would mean the end of the National
Research Institute for Food and Nutrition (INRAN), as part of a reorganization of the
Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture.
If the 1996 law's language was vague, Congress made the message clear by
cutting the CDC's budget by $ 2.6 million — exactly the same amount the
agency had spent the previous year on gun violence
research.