President Trump’s federal budget plan will mean stiffer competition for research, education, and humanities funding. Although the proposed budget will likely undergo changes before it is finalized, the stage has been set for potentially severe cuts. Specifically, the deepest proposed cuts are: Environmental Protection Agency (31% reduction), State Department (29% reduction), and the Department of Agriculture (21% reduction). “If they were to be enacted, these cuts signal the end of the American century as a global innovation leader,” said Robert D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, an industry-financed think tank. He added that “the Trump budget throws this great legacy away and is putting us on the path to being an economy that is a hewer of wood and drawer of water.”  Read more