Budget Agreement Boosts US Science (sciencemag.org)

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:10AM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

sciencehabit writes: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) leads the way among U.S science agencies getting increases in the final 2016 spending bill released today. NIH is the winner in absolute dollars. It gets a bump of $2 billion, or 6.6%, from its current budget of $30.1 billion. Spending on science programs at NASA would grow by 6.6%, to $5.6 billion, and rise by 5.6% in the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, to $5.35 billion. The National Science Foundation would receive an additional $119 million, or 1.6%, to $7.46 billion, and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy would get a 6% boost, to $291 million. NASA in particular got great allocations for planetary science and commercial crew.

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Re:This is agreed by Obama, Democrats and Republic by Mr+D+from+63 · 2015-12-16 05:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

Obama likes it because they put off paying for Obamacare another couple of years. The taxes on health insurance and medical equipment will be delayed until after the election and 2020, respectively.
O has done a masterful job at delaying the biggest cost impacts.