Trump calls for cutting National Science Foundation spending by nearly 10 percent | TheHill - The Hill

The White House's fiscal 2020 budget proposal recommends lowering NSF's budget to $7.1 billion, from its current level of $8.1 billion. The 12 percent cut would be slightly more than overall reductions to nondiscretionary funding in the president's budget request to Congress.

The NSF provides about one-quarter of all federal research grants and covers fields such as engineering, mathematics, computer science and social sciences. It also funds the purchase of large-scale scientific equipment.

According to the NSF website, foundation-funded researchers have gone on to win 236 Nobel Prizes.

Trump's 2020 budget proposal also calls for dramatically reducing funding for education, agriculture, health programs, transportation and the State Department.

Congress has largely ignored Trump's previous requests for deep discretionary budget cuts and has steadily increased NSF funding levels in recent years.

Updated at 1:29 p.m.

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