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Biden bids again to boost science spending — but faces long odds

The US president wants huge increases for clean energy and public health, but a divided Congress might not go along with the plan.
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  1. Jeff Tollefson
  2. Max Kozlov
  3. Amy Maxmen
  4. Alexandra Witze

Although Congress modestly increased funding for most science agencies in 2022, it heavily scaled back some of the administration’s most ambitious proposals. For instance, the Advanced Research Projects Agency—Health (ARPA-H), a new high-risk, high-reward agency meant to accelerate innovations in health and medicine, received $1 billion rather than the $6.5 billion the president requested last year.

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Nature 604, 18-19 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00897-8

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  • Correction 30 March 2022: An earlier version of this story said that Congress cut Biden’s requested boost for the NSF’s fiscal 2022 budget from about 20% to 4.3%. It cut the boost to 4.1%.

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