Trump Proposes $1B Cut to NSF

The President has proposed a $7.1 billion budget fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF), which represents a 12.5 percent cut from its current funding level. The President’s budget asserts that NSF would accelerate its progress on its “10 Big Ideas for Future Investments,” allocating support to high-priority areas that integrate science and engineering fields and create partnership opportunities with industry, private foundations, other federal agencies, and the education sector. The agency would provide $30 million to each of the six research-focused Big Ideas, that include Understanding the Rules of Life (URoL) - Predicting Phenotype; Navigating the New Arctic (NNA); The Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier (FW-HTF); and Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR), among others, for a total of $180 million. Research overall at NSF would be cut 13 percent. All research directorates across the agency would lose funding relative to the FY 2018 funding levels: Biological Sciences (BIO) would receive $683.4 million (-9.7 percent); Geosciences would get $787 million (-13.3 percent); Computer and Information Science and Engineering would get $883 million (-8.1 percent); Mathematical and Physical Sciences would receive $1.25 billion (-16.5 percent); Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences would get $230 million (-8.2 percent); and Office of Polar Programs would receive $403.4 million (-20 percent), while Integrative Activiti...
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