The 2024 spending plan President Joe Biden unveiled continues his administration’s pattern of asking for large increases at major U.S. research agencies.
President Joe Biden unveiled today continues his administration’s pattern of asking for large increases at major U.S. research agencies.
e are pleased President Biden’s budget request prioritizes robust, sustained investment for key research programs,” says Laura Kolton, who leads the Science Coalition. Several new science initiatives rank high among administration priorities highlighted in the request, which presidential science adviser Arati Prabhakar called a “smart, targeted blueprint for investing in America.” The fledgling Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health, which aims to accelerate converting basic research discoveries into treatments for dread diseases, would see its budget jump from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion.
The National Institute of Mental Health would get an additional $200 million for a new precision medicine psychiatric initiative, giving NIMH an overall increase of 8.5%. NIH’s environmental health institute would get $25 million in new funding to study health effects of climate change, a 2.7% boost to its overall budget. The rest of NIH’s 27 institutes and centers would stay at current budget levels, a status quo that displeases advocates for biomedical research.
Biden’s budget request of $1.4 billion for NSF’s education directorate reflects the administration’s emphasis on expanding the country’s scientific workforce at all levels, from community college through postdoctoral training. Likewise, the requested increase for NSF’s new Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships directorate is intended to help more researchers turn their discoveries into marketable products and new industries.
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