White House Stalls Release of Approved US Science Budgets (nature.com)
(Friday February 27, 2026 @05:40PM (msmash)
from the concerning-developments dept.)
- Reference: 0180869478
- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/207211/white-house-stalls-release-of-approved-us-science-budgets
- Source link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00601-0
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Weeks after the U.S. Congress rejected unprecedented cuts to science budgets that the administration of US President Donald Trump had sought for 2026, funding to several agencies that award research grants is [1]still not freely flowing .
>
> One reason is that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has been slow to authorize its release. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has so far not received approval to spend any of the research funding allocated in a budget bill signed into law on 3 February. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) was authorized to spend its funding just last week. And NASA has had its full funding authorized for release, but with an unusual restriction that limits spending on ten specific programmes -- many of which the Trump team had tried to cancel last year.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00601-0
> Weeks after the U.S. Congress rejected unprecedented cuts to science budgets that the administration of US President Donald Trump had sought for 2026, funding to several agencies that award research grants is [1]still not freely flowing .
>
> One reason is that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has been slow to authorize its release. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has so far not received approval to spend any of the research funding allocated in a budget bill signed into law on 3 February. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) was authorized to spend its funding just last week. And NASA has had its full funding authorized for release, but with an unusual restriction that limits spending on ten specific programmes -- many of which the Trump team had tried to cancel last year.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00601-0
Science you say? (Score:3)
by RitchCraft ( 6454710 )
Who needs science when you have the government to tell you every truth that needs to be known? Why, oh why, are you not taking the orange pill?
Well, sure ... (Score:2)
by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 )
> White House Stalls Release of Approved US Science Budgets
They haven't decided if "$0.00" looks better in [1]Calibri or Times New Roman [npr.org]
[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/12/11/nx-s1-5639915/u-s-state-department-changes-official-font-from-calibri-back-to-times-new-roman
Science? Cannot have that! (Score:2)
These people may explain to people what a fact is and even give them some! That would endanger our nice scam that is entirely based on people being really clueless!