The US NIH has a $30B budget to do research on cancer and human disease. Most of that is about helping people and has zero connection to the military. --- Edi

The US NIH has a $30B budget to do research on cancer and human disease. Most of that is about helping people and has zero connection to the military. --- Edit: also, the movement to close down DoE and cut NASAs budget certainly WAS created by American oligarchs like the Koches. They have created a propaganda machine to push for tax cuts for the rich. And part of the propaganda, pushed by outlets funded or controlled by GOP billionaires, like Fox, Limbaugh, Cato(founded as Koch), Sinclair, Heritage, SPN, Cit U, Jud Watch, Bradley, Searle, etc etc. is that we need to shrink government (so we can cut taxes on the rich.) One description of that strategy is here [1] Today’s Republican Party is the party that those activists made. Congressional Republicans who came up in the populist tax revolts of the 1970s abandoned the old party orthodoxy of balanced budgets and rebranded themselves as the tax-cutting party. They embraced the idea that deficits don’t matter as long as those deficits result from Republican tax cuts. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/opinion/republicans-tax-cuts-rich.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/opinion/republicans-tax-c...