Trump Seeks Big Cuts to Science Funding—Again - Heidi Ledford, Sara Reardon, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, Jeff Tollefson, Alexandra Witze; Scientific American

On 11 March, U.S. President Donald Trump released his budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year, which begins on 1 October 2019. Nature’s news team reports on what Trump’s budget would mean for U.S. government science agencies. The White House plan would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) U.S.$34.4 billion, roughly $5 billion below the current level. The plan would move the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), an independent agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, to the NIH. “I think it would be a disaster for science if it was enacted,” says Benjamin Krinsky, associate director for legislative affairs at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Rockville, Maryland. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-seeks-big-cuts-to-science-funding-mdash-again/