Author: Emily DeMarco / Source: Science News
After some initial waffling, President Trump signed a budget bill March 23 that lays out spending details for the rest of fiscal year 2018, which goes through September.
The $1.3-trillion spending deal boosts funding for nearly all science agencies, avoiding cuts the White House had proposed.These increases stem largely from February’s budget deal, which raised caps on discretionary spending. The National Institutes of Health, which got a $3 billion bump over the 2017 level, comes out especially well, as does the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. It receives an $868 million boost, a 16 percent increase. Climate science research and programs across several agencies also avoided big cuts that the administration had proposed.
The one outlier: the Environmental Protection Agency. At about $8.1 billion, its budget remains flat at the 2017 level.
Here are a few details that stood out to us.
NIH gets an extra $414 million for Alzheimer’s disease research, along with $400 million for the BRAIN Initiative, a research project announced by President Obama in 2013 that aims to improve our understanding…
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