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Brazilian lawmakers in showdown to double science budget

President Jair Bolsonaro has threatened deep cuts to research budgets — now scientists hope legislation will give them protected funds.
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  1. Jeff Tollefson

As Brazil reels from one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the world — second only to the United States — a coalition of academic and business groups is fighting to secure more funding for research and industrial innovation in the country. The legislation that they are backing, which would more than double the core Brazilian science and innovation budget for 2020, sailed through the Senate on 13 August with a near-unanimous vote. But before victory can be declared, the proposal needs to clear the lower house of the country’s National Congress and survive a potential showdown with President Jair Bolsonaro, who has sought steep cuts to science budgets since taking power last year and might veto the legislation .

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02433-y

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