Right hand: "We're outraged that China's Huawei is exploiting state subsidies to develop technology that poses a national security threat to the USA!" Left han

Right hand: "We're outraged that China's Huawei is exploiting state subsidies to develop technology that poses a national security threat to the USA!" Left hand: cuts research funding. Sometimes I get sadly resigned to the possibility that this really is what a majority of this country wants (or has been convinced is what is best). Despite us being overall so developed, these kinds of issues show you the importance (and inescapable historic truth) of still needing to tend to your fellow citizens' basic material needs. And, when not doing it properly (or seen to be doing it), it can determine whether you get to advance on the forefront of other issues. I swear, the biggest gift to other countries who are our long term competitors (and yes, don't mistake that we're not in a long term race here), is not any transfer/leak of technology or outright sabotage. It's that our stagnation and policy choas (caused by the dumbest issues!) for a decade sap our progress on strategic, major, major technologies. And cause the experts who you need to make progress to leave for more fertile ground, whether through leaving government, private companies, or to other countries. (How do you think that the FAA and military gradually became so dependent on their industry partners for any semblance of expertise?) Edit: yes I know that it's just the budget proposal, and that it's likely to get watered down more than Bernie Sanders in a general election. But the decline in funding in actual budgets is undeniable. And the outright deception to present such a budget is near fraud.