GOOD NEWS, THE GOVERNMENT IS GONNA KEEP RUNNING TILL AT LEAST SEPTEMBER!
Better news, the budget that was passed to keep the government running includes a bump in funding for NIH, and no reduction in NSF funding. Now, it’s not all good news, there’s a serious cut to EPA funding, but let’s take the wins we can get!
And keep fighting. This budget is only through September.
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“a bump in funding for NIH, and no reduction in NSF funding” – that is in nominal (i.e. non-inflation-adjusted) dollars, I believe? With inflation, it is not quite as rosy, and the NSF budget has shrunk in real terms, as I understand it. Still, it is obviously far better than it could have been!
In my original post I had a few sentences about how this was nominal, and we need to keep fighting for more funding, and calling your representatives. But I felt like I was starting to get preachy, and decided we should take the semi-win on this one, and deleted those sentiments. But I agree, this is not ideal.