American science put on starvation diet

[justaprogressive]

To make America great again, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to get by with less.

The agency responsible for promoting scientific progress in the US and nurturing national STEM talent has proposed a budget of $3.9 billion, 61.7 percent less than the $10.183 billion sought in FY 2025. Actual budget appropriations tend to differ from the sum requested.

Established in 1950 to advance science and national health, prosperity, welfare, and defense, the NSF carries out its mission mainly by making grants to American colleges and universities and by supporting academic researchers.

"This is a budget of destruction of US science," an NSF staffer told The Register. "Cuts of 65 percent to 75 in science, engineering and education will remove the United States from the world's map of impact, will lead to irreversible damage to American creativity, and destroy our country's GDP." This person asked for anonymity for fear of getting fired for talking to the press.

An NSF spokesperson told The Register, "The President’s FY2026 Discretionary Budget Request of $3.9 billion for the US National Science Foundation (NSF) reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment in which NSF prioritizes investments that can have the greatest national impact."

The Budget Proposal: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF-FY26-CJ-Entire-Rollup.pdf

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/30/american_science_put_on_starvation/

[sop]

1. All this simply to avoid facing 'An Inconvenient Truth.'

I mostly blame the extractive energy interests, and their decades-long jihad against climate and environmental science, for the current efforts to destroy scientific research. They set the tone years ago, funded anti-science hucksters and charlatans, disseminated their lies and conspiracies, and successfully turned "science" into some sort of moral relativism.

[andym]

2. Making America Weak Again (MAWA) through destroying its scientific advantage, just as China ascends

should go viral.

[SheltieLover]

3. Pootin has been wildly jealous of our education, science, farming, and military for decades.

Anything to please kraznov's owner.