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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/rise-in-defense-spending-means-smaller-increase-for-science-in-new-u-s-budget-2/
- Published: 2022-03-21T09:30:18-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.science.org