Trump's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science

Trump's latest budget proposal calls for massive cuts to scientific research, slashing funding for agencies like NASA and NIH by 20% compared to current levels. This recurring threat, if enacted, would reduce overall US science spending to $12 billion, jeopardizing long-term innovation in fields from climate modeling to cancer research. The proposal is 30% lighter than the runner-up in budget reductions among past administrations, targeting basic research disproportionately hard by a margin of 3-to-1 over defense programs. Also slower than the average fiscal response, this plan ignores bipartisan warnings that such cuts would cost 10,000 scientific jobs within a year. Unlike #9's immediate market impact, this budget faces an uphill battle in Congress, where similar proposals have historically failed by 85 votes on average.