Details of Trump’s Budget Cuts Alarm Researchers
The billions in proposed funding cuts would involve restructuring and consolidating the National Institutes of Health and slashing the majority of the National Science Foundation’s budget for scholarships and fellowships… after the Trump administration canceled research grants at the NSF and NIH and slowed down the approval process for any new grant funding, the budget documents highlight how the president could codify those cuts and reduce the federal government’s role in advancing research… The latest version of the plan shows that only three of the NIH’s existing institutes—the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute on Aging—would retain their names, though they would all lose billions in funding. According to STAT, NCI’s budget would drop from $7.2 billion to $4.5 billion; NIAID from around $6.6 billion to $4.2 billion, and NIA from $4.4 billion to $2.7 billion.