and casting doubt on mainstream climate science, but also by proposing massive cuts to science and medicine programs funded by the federal government. His previous budgets have requested cuts to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Energy Department. Leaders of the scientific and medical communities were outraged.
But Congress, which has the power of the purse, largely ignored the 2018 Trump budget requests and protected the agencies. NASA's budgets have been generally flat for years, adjusted for inflation, which has forced the agency to terminate major programs to begin new ones . The civilian space agency accounts for roughly 0.5% of the federal budget.
But NASA has been relatively flush lately: Under the budget recently passed by Congress, NASA got a 3.5% boost for fiscal 2019, to $21.5 billion. That's 8% more than the $19.9 billion requested by the White House in its 2019 budget proposal. This year the Environmental Protection Agency — one of the president's favored political targets — was subject to some of the most severe cuts. Trump's budget would reduce EPA funding by $2.8 billion, a 31% cut from its current budget.The budget describes the cuts as an effort to eliminate"lower-priority" EPA programs and return the agency to its"core mission of protecting human health and the environment.
trump is un-American
War on knowledge....
And, BTW, about $850 Billion with a B from Medicare.