White House Stalls Release of Approved US Science Budgets
Source: Slashdot
Delayed release of approved U.S. science budgets
Weeks after the U.S. Congress rejected unprecedented cuts to science budgets that the administration of President Donald Trump had sought for 2026, funding to several agencies that award research grants is still not freely flowing1.
One reason is that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has been slow to authorize its release. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet received approval to spend any of the research funding allocated in a budget bill signed into law on 3 February. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) was authorized to spend its funding just last week. 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.