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All the Ways Trump’s Budget Cuts Science Funding

From the EPA, to the NIH, and NASA, research is not a priority in the administration’s fiscal blueprint.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Updated on March 16 at 13:30 p.m. ET

President Trump’s budget blueprint, released Thursday morning, is supposed to lay out the administration priorities, and science is clearly not among them. It deals sweeping cuts to science and health agency budgets, and, in some cases, targets specific programs championed by the Obama administration.

The administration will release a more detailed budget request later this year, and Congress will ultimately have to approve the federal budget.

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