This has been happening for a while, so your statement is false. Even under Obama, funding suffered. https://www.aaas.org/news/science-and-technology-funding-u

This has been happening for a while, so your statement is false. Even under Obama, funding suffered. https://www.aaas.org/news/science-and-technology-funding-under-obama-look-back https://www.aaas.org/news/science-and-technology-funding-und... It is best to think of the problem as the inability of the executive branch to work with Congress. This is not a result of the “ascent of the conservative political movement” as you call it. It is simply a result of a polarized political environment, both by left wingers (Obama) or right wingers (Trump). Both made it a point to leave the other side out in the cold after winning (remember Schumer saying that Dems passing Healthcare alone was a strategic mistake?) We don’t have to let political persuasion blind us from reality of where we are since Obama won the first time: a divided country. https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/healthcare/225300-schumer-dems-erred-with-obamacare%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/healthcare/225...