FY 18 Budget Request: Department of Education

If enacted, the Trump Administration’s FY 18 budget request for the U.S. Department of Education would set discretionary funding at $59 billion, 13 percent lower than FY 17 annualized Continuing Resolution (CR) levels. The budget would eliminate or reduce many programs of interest to higher education institutions, such as Strengthening Institutions while leaving some key programs more or less as they are and providing notable increases to programs supporting charter schools.  Read more

FY 18 Budget Request: NSF

The National Science Foundation (NSF) would see an 11 percent decrease in total funding under a new budget request recently released by the Trump Administration. The bulk of the $819 million cut to NSF would fall on the Research and Related Activities account, which would decrease 11 percent below FY 17 levels to $5.4 billion.  Read more

FY18 Budget Request: NASA

President Trump has released the full version of his FY 18 budget request, a fleshed-out version of the “skinny budget” the administration released in March of this year. The budget leaves funding for NASA relatively stable; the agency as a whole would receive a funding decrease of about 3 percent from the FY 17 enacted budget. However, within that larger number are marked shifts in research priorities, as the budget request continues a government-wide pivot away from earth and climate science. The budget also houses a notable decrease in extramural grant funding across directorates and would eliminate NASA’s Office of Education.​  Read more