The U.S. Congress has delivered another rebuke of President Donald Trump’s plans to slash this year’s budgets of several science agencies. The three appropriations bills were negotiated by a panel of senators and members of the House of Representatives.

The proposed spending package would shrink NSF’s $9.06 billion budget by 3.4% this year, or $300 million, compared with Trump’s request for a 55% reduction. Its research account would hold steady at $7.18 billion and its education programs, which Trump sought to essentially eliminate, would receive $938 million. However, that total is $180 million less than NSF received in 2025.

At NASA, science missions would receive $7.25 billion, $84 million less than this year. That 1.1% dip compares with the 47% cut to its programs that Trump wanted. The space agency’s education activities, which Trump sought to eliminate, would receive $143 million, the same as last year.

The budget for DOE’s Office of Science would actually grow by almost 2% this year, from $8.24 billion to $8.4 billion. Trump had wanted to lop off more than $1 billion.

Source https://www.science.org/content/article/congress-set-reject-trump-s-major-budget-cuts-nsf-nasa-and-energy-science

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