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That has nothing to do with what the labs are or are not doing and everything to do with gridlock in D.C.
by batbomb 10y ago
That has nothing to do with what the labs are or are not doing and everything to do with gridlock in D.C.
- mistermann 10y agoUnless they were doing really interesting things that captured the hearts and minds of the public who then therefore demanded funding increases.
- lvs 10y agoGosh. You're really not getting it. They're not losing funding because of anything specific to their research (yet). Congress passed only a single budget covering the whole government in the last 8 years! They're only keeping the government funded by continuing resolutions that keep all allocations flat-line. The drop in funding he's talking about is from inflation when the budget is flat year-over-year.