The Future Is Flat in White House's 2015 Spending Request

摘要

The 2015 budget request that President Barack Obama sent to Congress last week sounded a bit like one of those Hollywood previews shown at the multiplex. It invited its audience to imagine an alternative world. In it, scientists get 1650 additional grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), agricultural researchers get a new $20 million biosafety laboratory, and there's a new $1 billion fund aimed at preparing for global warming. It all could become real, the White House argued, if lawmakers would allow the government to spend about $56 billion more than permitted under a budget agreement that sets the spending rules for the upcoming fiscal year.