{"id":28788,"date":"2025-05-31T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28788"},"modified":"2025-05-31T18:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:25:32","slug":"trumps-proposed-budget-would-cut-the-ecosystems-mission-area-and-much-of-its-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28788","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Proposed Budget Would Cut the Ecosystems Mission Area and Much of Its Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From bee science to understanding the impact of a warming world on plant life, here\u2019s what the Ecosystems Mission Area does.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration\u2019s proposed budget for 2026<\/a> slashes about 90 percent of the funding for one of the country\u2019s cornerstone biological and ecological research programs.<\/p>\n

Known as the Ecosystems Mission Area, the program is part of the U.S. Geological Survey and studies nearly every aspect of the ecology and biology of natural and human-altered landscapes and waters around the country.<\/p>\n

The 2026 proposed budget<\/a> allocates $29 million for the project, a cut from its current funding level of $293 million. The budget proposal also reduces funds for other programs in the U.S. Geological Survey, as well as other federal science agencies.<\/p>\n

The budget still needs to be approved by Congress and scientists are seizing the opportunity to save the E.M.A. In early May, more than 70 scientific societies and universities signed a letter<\/a> to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, urging him not to eliminate the program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Abolishing the E.M.A. was an explicit goal of Project 2025, the blueprint for shrinking the federal government produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation. That work cited decades-long struggles over the Interior Department\u2019s land management in the West, where protections for endangered species have at times prevented development, drilling and mining.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From bee science to understanding the impact of a warming world on plant life, here\u2019s what the Ecosystems Mission Area does.The Trump administration\u2019s proposed budget for 2026 slashes about 90 percent of the funding for one of the country\u2019s cornerstone biological and ecological research programs.Known as the Ecosystems Mission Area, the program is part of the U.S. Geological Survey and studies nearly every aspect of the ecology and biology of natural and human-altered landscapes and waters around the country.The 2026 proposed budget allocates $29 million for the project, a cut from its current funding level of $293 million. The budget proposal also reduces funds for other programs in the U.S. Geological Survey, as well as other federal science agencies.The budget still needs to be approved by Congress and scientists are seizing the opportunity to save the E.M.A. In early May, more than 70 scientific societies and universities signed a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, urging him not to eliminate the program.Abolishing the E.M.A. was an explicit goal of Project 2025, the blueprint for shrinking the federal government produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation. That work cited decades-long struggles over the Interior Department\u2019s land management in the West, where protections for endangered species have at times prevented development, drilling and mining.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28790,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28791,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788\/revisions\/28791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}