Trump's new budget cuts all but a favored few science programs.
Trump's new budget cuts all but a favored few science programs.
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特朗普的新预算削减了除少数受青睐的科学项目外的所有项目。
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J. Mervis
唐纳德·特朗普总统想要大幅削减国家卫生研究院、国家科学基金会以及NASA和能源部的科学项目的预算，这已经不是什么新闻了。在过去的几年里，国会拒绝了类似的提议，并提出了增加。但2月10日公布的特朗普9号2021年预算申请，让他的政府在整个研究版图中更清楚地关注了什么-以及它认为不重要的东西。政府高级科学官员在媒体吹风会上拒绝讨论削减许多基础研究领域的提议，而是选择强调科学领域为数不多的亮点。例如，当被问及关于气候变化的研究时，白宫科学顾问凯尔文·德罗格梅尔改变了话题。“我们希望继续把重点放在人工智能和量子信息科学上，”他说，这是政府选择增加支出的两个领域。
It9s no longer news that President Donald Trump wants to make deep cuts in the budgets of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the science programs at NASA and the Department of Energy. And in past years, Congress has rejected similar proposals and provided increases. But Trump9s 2021 budget request, unveiled on 10 February, brings into sharper focus what his administration values across the research landscape—and what it views as unimportant. Top administration science officials refused at a media briefing to address the proposed cuts to many areas of basic research, choosing instead to highlight the few bright spots for science. For example, when asked about research on climate change, a discipline targeted for cuts, White House science adviser Kelvin Droegemeier changed the subject. "We want to keep this focused on artificial intelligence and quantum information science," he said—two fields the administration has selected for spending increases.