The WaPo has a bizarre article about the impending fiscal catastrophe that is about to explode within the Trump budget. Typically, it looks once more like Democrats got rolled in the budget negotiations that they signed off on last month. By agreeing to a new budget, they opened the door to massive cuts in various agencies.
What is so odd about the Post article is that it focuses on a small part of the federal scientific community. I get that these are the sort of programs that Republicans love to attack, because - as you can see in the article - they are both anti-science and pro-plutocracy. They think billionaire philanthropy (market forces) should determine funding, rather than a shared communal goal of advancing knowledge.
The Trump budget is going to gut education aid at a time when paying for college is getting harder and harder. And that's what I know from literally zero research; I just heard it on the wife's NPR. My guess, knowing the Trump Adminstration and the general awfulness of GOP policy makers, is that there are a basket full of deplorable cuts in here.
Thanks a lot Republicans...and Democrats.
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