Even the lowest budget boost in 2023, awarded to NASA Science, delivered 2.4 funding growth.

It doesn’t even cover inflation.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

An increase in federal spending for the sciences in the US was short-lived, as the 2024 budget has seen significant cuts for many agencies – and 2025 looks to be on a similar track.

Even the lowest budget boost in 2023, awarded to NASA Science, delivered 2.4 funding growth.

The recently implemented Fiscal Responsibility Act holds that non-defense discretionary spending (which includes science budgets) can rise by just one percent next financial year.

However, if President Biden gets his way, he’d take $5 billion from the Department of Defense’s budget and give at least some of it to science agencies.

It’s unclear if this is going to work out, since Congress has given the Department of Defense – the golden child of the federal government – more than what it’s asked for every year since 2017, according to the AIP’s budget tracker.

If the House really doesn’t want to spend more on science, political reality will make that mood hard to change.

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