Budgetvorschlag des Weißen Hauses könnte die National Science Foundation | erschüttern | „Diese Art von Schnitt würde die amerikanische Wissenschaft töten und China fördern.“

From the article: Sometime during the next several weeks, the directors of federal agencies will receive a draft version of President Trump’s budget request for the coming fiscal year, which begins on October 1. This “passback review” is a standard part of the federal budgeting process which ends in Congress writing a budget and the president signing it into law.

The budget request will be the first of President Trump’s second term, and it will offer a clear window into the priorities of his new administration. Although widespread cuts are expected for much of the government’s discretionary spending, the outlook for the National Science Foundation appears to be especially grim.

During an emotional all-hands meeting on Tuesday, the agency’s assistant director, Susan Margulies, told agency employees to expect between a quarter and a half of its staff to be laid off within the coming months, E&E News reported.

On Thursday, two sources told Ars that the science agency should expect to see steep cuts in Trump’s forthcoming budget request. In recent years, the National Science Foundation has received an annual budget of approximately $9 billion, the vast majority of which is spent on research and research-related activities. The cuts could be as deep as 66 percent, with one person indicating the top-line budget number for the National Science Foundation could start at $3 billion.

Such a massive cut is not out of line with a proposal made by Russ Vought for the fiscal year 2023 budget as part of his Center for Renewing America. Vought is expected to become the White House budget director in the coming days. Three years ago, Vought proposed cutting the National Science Foundation budget to $3.9 billion. The cuts, he wrote, would require NSF “to make better decisions and target grants to actual research that will benefit the whole country, not just propagandize for woke ideology.”

The sunset on the tax break for millionaires, billionaires and corporations comes due in 2025. The administration is trying to find $ 4T to fund a renewal and additional tax breaks for dt and his billionaire cronies. They will attempt to slash and burn very public service that doesn’t contribute to their bottom line, which means everything that is a public service. The waste they’re trying to find is actually in the Pentagon, where most of these superfluous individuals make their money, which is why DOGE is not investigating the Pentagon, but instead is digging into VA, Medicare, Medicaid, USAID, etc. dt was never looking to provide tax breaks to the poor and middle class, he’s likely going to tax them even more. A revolution is brewing for very good reasons.