Following a $ 2 billion increase for NIH in the 2017 omnibus, the FY 2018 request would allocate only $ 26.9 billion for the agency, representing a 21.5 percent reduction below
omnibus levels.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) budget would decrease by a total $ 819 million or 11 percent below last year's
omnibus levels.
The Army would also see a 27.1 percent reduction to applied research below
omnibus levels.
It would also cut New Frontiers by 40 percent below
the omnibus level.
Not exact matches
The deal included a variety of specifics, including new funding for disaster relief and opioid treatment, but more specifically, it extended current spending
levels until March 23 and trusted Congress to use the intervening time to pass appropriations bills (or one big
omnibus deal) in accordance with the terms of the deal.
But the rule of the road requires the commuter
omnibus driver to stop at a rail
level crossing, which he did not do.
ELIZABETHTOWN The
omnibus government spending bill passed by Congress and signed by the president last month rejects deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and fully funds the agency at 2017 spending
levels.
Even with a base defense spending increase of 9.4 percent, S&T programs would decline by approximately 5.4 percent below funding
levels enacted in the FY 2017
omnibus, though this is also a 3.5 percent increase above FY 2016
levels.
Neither High Energy Physics nor Nuclear Physics were given much detail in the
omnibus package, but both would be subject to general reductions below FY 2016
levels in multiple areas, as can be seen in the table linked above.
The White House has announced that the President would sign the
omnibus into law should it be adopted, though again, it stands virtually no chance of passage in the Senate, where appropriators have written appropriations bills to different overall funding
levels.
Raising the spending caps does not automatically mean science agencies will now get a spending increase: Congress still needs to agree on a catch - all
omnibus appropriations bill that reflects this new higher spending
level, and lays out funding for individual agencies and programs.
[1] As explained in yesterday's summary, the best comparison is between the FY 2018 request and funding
levels enacted in the
omnibus.
Agency spending
levels in the
omnibus thus represent a step in the longer - term negotiation that will have to eventually involve the Senate and the White House.
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) BARDA and its Project BioShield initiative would see essentially no change from FY 2017
omnibus funding
levels, with each funded at or just above $ 510 million.
Instead, language in the
omnibus bill allows the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate to remain at last year's
levels, while Geosciences would be permitted to grow in FY 2016.
Omnibus Summaries — For detailed summaries of the 11 Appropriations bills within the
Omnibus, including funding
levels and policy items, please visit the following:
The
omnibus bill provides $ 375 million for AFRI, a 7.1 % increase over the 2016
level.
The authors recommend four best practices in this area: (1) Get rid of the
omnibus grade, which tells teachers little about the content measured or the difficulty
level of the content; (2) If you can't get rid of the
omnibus grade, provide scores on measurement topics in addition to the grade; (3) Expand the assessment options available to students; and (4) Allow students to continually update their scores on previous measurement topics.
We reported that the
level of ownership of both devices had nearly doubled in a month — from 10 % ownership for each device in December to 19 % in January.28 The margin of error for the combined
omnibus survey data is ± 2.4 percentage points.
They also considered information regarding the Manager's expected payment (in some cases from its resources) of certain expenses for the benefit of the Fund, including distribution expenses and account -
level expenses associated with certain
omnibus accounts.
Because our
omnibus test risked obscuring the impact of EFT and handholding on specific regions of the brain, we next inspected a series of models at the circuit
level.
The initial
omnibus test suggested this effect was pervasive, impacting the average of all voxels hypothesized to activate to the presentation of threat cues — especially among couples suffering from the lowest
levels of relationship quality.