Rise in defense spending means smaller increase for science in new U.S. budget

Photo by Ousa Chea on Unsplash. Article by Jeffrey Mervis. Science – March 16, 2022.

Final 2022 spending bill trims Biden’s big spending boosts for research

Last week, Congress agreed to give roughly 5% more money to many federal science agencies when it passed a $1.5-trillion government budget for 2022. But what science advocates had hoped would be a banner funding year fell victim to a bipartisan push to spend much more on defense than President Joe Biden had requested—and to one Democratic senator’s rejection of a separate Biden plan to allocate billions of additional dollars for research. […]

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