"President Trump’s proposed budget in the next fiscal year calls for firm support of artificial intelligence and quantum research but makes large cuts to many other parts of the sprawling enterprise of scientific research funded by the federal government.
Only Congress has the power to enact such proposals, but if it does in this case, “the consequences for the future of our nation will be catastrophic,” said Sudip Parikh, head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest scientific societies. “The United States will no longer be in the global race” for leadership in research and development, he added. “We will have lost it.”
Figures published by the society show that China has greatly increased its support for the scientific enterprise in the past two decades. As of 2023, the most recent year available for comparisons, China’s investment was close to matching the United States.
One of Mr. Trump’s biggest reductions would be a 55.8 percent cut from the budget of the National Science Foundation, which sponsors much of the nation’s most basic research from which many applied scientific discoveries spring. It would fall to $3.9 billion from $8.8 billion."
SEE ALSO:
"‘Scientific Asylum’: How Europe Is Luring US Researchers Amid Trump Fears" (Aljazeera)
"National Science Foundation Halts Funding Indefinitely" (Scientific American)
"Trump’s ‘Skinny Budget’ Has Plans To Cut Science And Research To The Bone" (Chemistry World)
"U.S. Scientists’ Lives And Careers Are Being Upended. Here Are Five Of Their Stories" (Science)
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