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Believe it or not, in this newfound age of Alternative Facts, some good news has just emerged from the intertwined worlds of science and politics. Based on an advanced copy of Americas budget for the 2017 financial year, it looks like there has been an actual increase in science funding across the board, and rather wonderfully, Trumps requests to have it cut have been comprehensively ignored.
Former President Obama signed off on the 2017 budget last year, but it overlapped with the ascension of the Trump administration and a resurgent GOP-controlled Congress. The Trump administration is one of the most anti-scientific governments ever to be in power in the US, and the president himself has committed himself to draconian cuts to science funding, particularly health and geosciences.
The threat of Trumps 2018 budget remains real, but his influence over the 2017 budget haunted plenty of scientists and academics across the country. Any spending bill has to be approved by Congress, however, and it seems that this time, bipartisan agreement between Democrats and (some) Republicans have produced a bill thats surprisingly pro-science.
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Congress Just Ignored Trump And Boosted America's Science Funding (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2017
OP
I think that is the lesson. GOP do not want to lose the House and Senate in 2018.
applegrove
May 2017
#2
Yes, it has gotten the attention of many, I really don't think Ryan want the repeal of ACA to come
Thinkingabout
May 2017
#4
Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)1. Perhaps those marches (yep, I marched) actually helped?
applegrove
(118,595 posts)2. I think that is the lesson. GOP do not want to lose the House and Senate in 2018.
ChazInAz
(2,564 posts)3. Perzackly
They felt the cold chill of Reality breathing down their necks, and thought of the Guillotine.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)4. Yes, it has gotten the attention of many, I really don't think Ryan want the repeal of ACA to come
to a vote, it would tell who is willing to hurt citizens and we just might vote against them. Listen up, we did not elect them to repeal ACA, it is what the issue they ran.