{"id":271933,"date":"2026-01-07T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/271933\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:33:07","slug":"congress-plans-to-mostly-buck-trumps-nsf-nasa-energy-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/271933\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Plans to Mostly Buck Trump\u2019s NSF, NASA, Energy Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congressional appropriators aren\u2019t planning to go along with Trump\u2019s huge proposed NSF cut.<\/p>\n

Federal lawmakers crafting appropriations legislation for this fiscal year have released plans that largely reject President Trump\u2019s huge proposed cuts to the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Energy Department.<\/p>\n

Science reported<\/a> on the new figures Monday. While Trump asked Congress to halve the NSF\u2019s budget\u2014a slash of billions of dollars\u2014lawmakers are suggesting a reduction of less than a billion for it and NASA, plus an increase for the Energy Department. <\/p>\n

Joanne Padr\u00f3n Carney, chief government relations officer for the American Association for the Advancement of Science told Inside Higher Ed in an email that \u201cthe scientific community has spoken out over the last year, and Congress has listened by rejecting steep budget cuts to science.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an important step in a series of many still to come, as Congress must ensure that appropriated funds are fully obligated, and a full federal budget is passed,\u201d she wrote. Parts of the federal government will begin shutting down again after Jan. 30 if Congress doesn\u2019t pass appropriations bills. <\/p>\n

Trump had requested a $5\u00a0billion cut from the NSF compared to its budget last year. But the appropriations committees in each chamber have proposed cutting only about $310\u00a0million, according to the AAAS\u2019s appropriations debate tracker<\/a>. That would leave the agency with roughly $8.8\u00a0billion.<\/p>\n

In July, the chambers were far apart on this agency: The Senate appropriators were suggesting a cut of only $16\u00a0million, while House appropriators were eyeing a $2\u00a0billion cut.<\/p>\n

For NASA, another major federal research funder, Trump requested cutting $6\u00a0billion, but the bicameral legislation would only cut $400\u00a0million, the AAAS tracker says. <\/p>\n

And at the Energy Department, another research funder, Trump asked Congress to cut $1.1\u00a0billion from its Office of Science, but the legislation instead suggests an increase of $160\u00a0million, the AAAS tracker shows. That\u2019s how much the House had proposed increasing the budget by; the Senate had actually suggested cutting $240\u00a0million.<\/p>\n

The White House didn\u2019t return requests for comment Tuesday. Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a news release that the proposed legislation \u201crejects President Trump\u2019s push to let our competitors do laps around us by slashing federal funding for scientific research by upwards of 50% and killing thousands of good jobs in the process.\u201d <\/p>\n

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