Scientists, advocacy groups and lobbyists have been pleading with members of Congress in the past several weeks to protect funding for research agencies. The campaign appears to be working: under the Senate committee’s bill, the NSF budget would drop by only 0.67%, rather than by 57% as Trump requested, and many NASA space and Earth-science missions would continue rather than being shut down (see ‘Request rebuffed’). “This bill protects key science missions,” Jerry Moran, a Republican senator from Kansas, said at the meeting… During Trump’s first presidency, from 2017 to 2021, Congress largely preserved research funding in the face of the president’s proposed cuts. But this year, even if Congress ultimately passes a budget supporting science agencies, many policy watchers worry that the Trump administration might simply ignore it.

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by Dan Garisto and Alexandra Witze , Nature.

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