# Trump's 2018 science budget

You can read about it in the Washington Post or Science, but FYI, by the American Institute of Physics, possibly sums it up the best:

• The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy* – down 109 %
• DOE's Renewable Energy – down 70 %
• DOE's Fossil Energy – down 58 %
• NOAA Research – down 32 %
• DOE's Nuclear Energy – down 31 %
• National Institute of Standards and Technology – down 23 %
• National Institutes of Health – down 22 %
• DOE's Office of Science – down 17 %
• United States Geological Survey – down 15 %
• National Science Foundation – down 11 %
• Department of Defense Science and Technology – 5.8 %
• NASA Science – down 0.9 %
• National Nuclear Security Administration – up 7.7 %
• * The figure 109 % is correct and has something to do with prior year balances.

In dollars, as opposed to percentage, according to FYI, the largest hit is to NIH, which will lose approximately $7.4 billion compared with the FY17 budget. NNSA, by contrast, gains about$1 billion.

According to the Science and the Post articles, reaction from scientists and science organizations has been predictable. Fortunately, the Post reports in a headline, Even some Republicans balk at Trump’s plan for steep budget cuts. We shall see.