b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 1 The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH's) budget would get a modest 3.2%
raise, to $35.2 billion, in a draft spending bill released by a House of
Representatives committee today. To the relief of U.S. research universities
, the measure would also explicitly block a proposal by the Trump
administration to slash by two-thirds the payments that NIH disburses to
cover the overhead costs of the research it funds. Furthermore, the bill
ignores a Trump plan to abolish NIH’s widely lauded global health center.
Although the $1.1 billion increase is only about half of the raises Congress
has given the agency the past 2 years, the Trump administration had
proposed cutting NIH’s budget by $7.5 billion, a drop of 22% from this year
’s level. The White House had argued that this could be accomplished
without much impact on number of grants or research overall by slashing how
much NIH compensates universities for “indirect costs,” the administrative
and facilities costs associated with the direct costs of a project, from 28
% of its overall extramural research spending to a flat rate of 10% of a
total individual grant.
The plan deeply worried universities and research institutions, which now
individually negotiate indirect rates for their institutions with the
government. They argued that even at current levels, these payments don’t
come close to covering the full cost of utilities, ethics review boards,
animal care facilities, administrative staff, hazardous waste disposal, high
-speed computers, and other services needed to support NIH-funded research
projects. Universities warned that any cuts could force many institutions to
curtail NIH research on their campuses. | b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | | s******y 发帖数: 28562 | 3 NIH budget 是比较罕见的有两党共识支持的地方,而且因为很多grant 是五年的,所
以Trump 一开口就要砍20%是没有实际操作意义的,因为这样就意味着在后面一两年几
乎不能发新的grant 了,就等于政府出手把自己国家的大部分实验室给直接灭掉了。
但是增加那么多(3.2%!!!)也是挺出乎意料的,我猜congress,senate,和总统还是要讨
价还价一轮? 最后版本就是不砍,或者小幅度增长。
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】 : 两党议员誓死保卫nih.议员们也怕死。
| b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 4 怎么花钱,花多少钱是国会说了算。特别是在最高院判总统 line to line veto违宪后
,总统话语权更小了。每年国防部都要买很多永远不用的设备,就是这个原因。
【在 s******y 的大作中提到】 : NIH budget 是比较罕见的有两党共识支持的地方,而且因为很多grant 是五年的,所 : 以Trump 一开口就要砍20%是没有实际操作意义的,因为这样就意味着在后面一两年几 : 乎不能发新的grant 了,就等于政府出手把自己国家的大部分实验室给直接灭掉了。 : 但是增加那么多(3.2%!!!)也是挺出乎意料的,我猜congress,senate,和总统还是要讨 : 价还价一轮? 最后版本就是不砍,或者小幅度增长。
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