A attack on scientific infrastructure
The American sciences could not prosper without an education system surrounding talented individuals in higher education programs. Thus, of course, the financing of these is also targeted. It is partly about the administration’s intention to eliminate the Ministry of Education, but there is also a specific accent on the programs that target low -income individuals.
For example, the Great Up program Describes itself as “designed to increase the number of low -income students who are ready to enter and succeed in post -secondary education”. The OMB document describes it as “a relic of the past when financial incentives were necessary to motivate higher education establishments to engage with low -income students and to increase access”. He continues by saying that it is “not the obstacle he was for students of limited means”.
Likewise, the SEOG program Funding is “awarded to a undergraduate student who demonstrates an exceptional financial need”. In the opinion of the CMOB, colleges and universities “used (he) to finance the radical left ideology instead of investing in students and their success”. Another reduction is supposed to eliminate “assistance centers for actions that have endocrtrinated children”. And “the budget proposes to put an end to the dollars of armed federal taxpayers to indoctrinate new teachers”.
In addition, the Federal Work-Studies program, which subsidizes jobs for students in need, also obtains a billion dollars. Again, the document indicates that states can pay for this.
(The educational part also specifically reduces the financing of the Howard University, which is both distinct as a black university defended by the federal government and also notable as Kamala Harris obtained its first diploma.)
The end of American leadership
This budget is a recipe to end the leadership of the United States in science. He would make generational damage by forcing the laboratories to close, with a corresponding loss of highly qualified individuals and unique search materials. At the same time, he will strangle the educational pipeline which could possibly replace these losses. Since the United States is one of the main sources of research funding worldwide, if approved, the budget will have global consequences.
For the people within the OMB who prepared the document, it is not losses. The document very clearly indicates that they consider many cases of scientific thinking and politics based on evidence such as a little more than forms of ideological indoctrination, probably because the evidence sometimes contradicts what they would prefer to believe.