{"id":31475,"date":"2025-07-10T13:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31475"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:41:03","slug":"trump-seeks-to-cut-basic-scientific-research-by-roughly-one-third-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31475","title":{"rendered":"Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration\u2019s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s budget plan guts federal science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by an external group. Particularly at risk is the category of basic research \u2014 the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The group says it would fall by more than one-third.<\/p>\n

The new analysis<\/a>, made public Wednesday by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a general scientific society based in Washington, D.C., added up cuts to the budgets of hundreds of federal agencies and programs that do scientific research or provide grants to universities and research bodies. It then compared the funding appropriated for the current fiscal year with the administration\u2019s proposals for fiscal year 2026.<\/p>\n

For basic science research, the association reported that the overall budget would fall to $30 billion from $45 billion, a drop of roughly 34 percent. For science funding overall \u2014 which includes money for basic, applied and developmental work, as well as for facilities for research and development \u2014 the analysis found that the federal budget would fall to $154 billion from $198 billion, a drop of 22 percent.<\/p>\n

The new analysis shows that the Trump administration\u2019s budget plan, if adopted, \u201cwould essentially end America\u2019s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation,\u201d said Toby Smith, senior vice president for government relations and public policy at the Association of American Universities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His group, Mr. Smith added, is working with Congress to develop \u201ca funding plan for strategic investment that would help to sustain continued American scientific leadership rather than destroying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Woolley, president of Research America, a nonprofit group that promotes science, said the new analysis showed that the budget plan \u201cis threatening not only science but the American public. If approved by Congress, it will make the public less safe, poorer and sicker.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Gutting of America\u2019s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant<\/h2>\n

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country\u2019s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration\u2019s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.President Trump\u2019s budget plan guts federal science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by an external group. Particularly at risk is the category of basic research \u2014 the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.The group says it would fall by more than one-third.The new analysis, made public Wednesday by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a general scientific society based in Washington, D.C., added up cuts to the budgets of hundreds of federal agencies and programs that do scientific research or provide grants to universities and research bodies. It then compared the funding appropriated for the current fiscal year with the administration\u2019s proposals for fiscal year 2026.For basic science research, the association reported that the overall budget would fall to $30 billion from $45 billion, a drop of roughly 34 percent. For science funding overall \u2014 which includes money for basic, applied and developmental work, as well as for facilities for research and development \u2014 the analysis found that the federal budget would fall to $154 billion from $198 billion, a drop of 22 percent.The new analysis shows that the Trump administration\u2019s budget plan, if adopted, \u201cwould essentially end America\u2019s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation,\u201d said Toby Smith, senior vice president for government relations and public policy at the Association of American Universities.His group, Mr. Smith added, is working with Congress to develop \u201ca funding plan for strategic investment that would help to sustain continued American scientific leadership rather than destroying it.\u201dMary Woolley, president of Research America, a nonprofit group that promotes science, said the new analysis showed that the budget plan \u201cis threatening not only science but the American public. If approved by Congress, it will make the public less safe, poorer and sicker.\u201dThe Gutting of America\u2019s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. GrantSome cuts have been starkly visible, but the country\u2019s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.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":31477,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475","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=31475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31478,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475\/revisions\/31478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}