We will continue to provide updates over the next several days and weeks but here are a few more details about the Administration budget request.
NIH
The $41 billion requested at the program level for the agency requests a $5 billion cut below the current year’s program level. The budget summary argues that NIH “broke the trust of the American people with wasteful spending, misleading information, risky research, and the promotion of dangerous ideologies that undermine public health.” To partly address that, the Administration is seeking to eliminate three centers or institutes:
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, which, according to the budget documents, is “replete with DEI expenditures”;
- Fogarty International Center; and,
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
ARPA-H
The agency would see its budget decrease from $1.5 billion to $945 million in FY2027.
ED
Additional programs would see lower funding levels or eliminated altogether under the budget proposal, including:
- TRIO– $0 (currently at $1.19 billion)
- GEAR-UP– $0 (currently at $388 million)
- GAANN– $0 (currently at $19.5 million)
- Federal Work Study– $123 million (currently at $1.24 billion)
- Institute of Education Sciences (IES)– $261.3 million (currently at $790 million)
NSF
The budget request seeks to cut NSF by nearly 55%, reducing the current budget of $8.8 billion to $4 billion. Within this, there would be major cuts across the board, including:
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Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction: $173 million (currently $251 million), a 31% decrease
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NSF Total General Science and Basic Research: $3.3 billion (currently $7.1 billion) a 53% decrease
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STEM education programs: $151 million (currently $1.1 billion), an 86% decrease
- Within “Research and Related Activities,” funding for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate is eliminated
- The Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate is cut by $658 million, and the Technology, Innovations, and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate is cut by $548 million
- Consistent with a focus on “maritime dominance,” the request also includes $900.0 million in new mandatory authority to be used for construction of an Antarctic Icebreaking Vessel