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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trumps-budget-would-slash-scientific-and-medical-research/2017/03/15/d3261f98-0998-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html

Some samples of the cuts the Trump budget is proposing:

> The National Institutes of Health would be cut by nearly $6 billion, about a fifth of the NIH budget.

> Programs targeted for termination include an EPA program to clean up the Cheseapeake Bay, the accident-investigating Chemical Safety Board, and a NASA satellite program that monitors solar storms and Earth’s climate.

> The administration wants to boost the funding for maintenance of the nuclear weapons stockpile, but outside of that one program, The Department of Energy would see a 17.9 percent budget cut.

> The Department of Energy’s Office of Science would see a $900 million cut. Eliminates the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, which underwrites innovations in biofuels and batteries.

> Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program terminated “because the private sector is better positioned to finance disruptive energy research and development and to commercialize innovative technologies.”

> The EPA would be trimmed by $2.6 billion, a 31.5% cut. The EPA’s Office of Research and Development would lose nearly half its budget.

> Eliminates $250 million in grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) involving coastal and marine research and education.

> Cancels the Asteroid Redirect Mission, a controversial Obama administration proposal to break a boulder off an asteroid and haul it to lunar orbit to be sampled by astronauts.

> NASA Earth Science cut by $102 million including the elimination of four missions.