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The Trump Administration released March 16, 2017 its FY18 budget outline [and its full budget May 23.] Titled America First A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again, the document covers mostly topline, including budget levels for example for NIH but not NSF. I will be filling in information as I become aware of it.  This blog entry will track FY18 appropriations developments for NIH, NSF, AHRQ, and NIH and so will be updated accordingly. (See log updates below.) To receive notifications of updates, follow ASA Science Policy on Twitter: @ASA_SciPol. 

​Because this blog entry covers everything from the budget request to the final determination of the budget, it can become quite long. To help with that, I'll try to partition the blog entry:

• Reports on the FY18 Request
• Reports on Congressional Consideration of FY18 budgets
• NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Table
• Update log

NSF, FDA, and AHRQ FY18 requested budget levels were not included in the March 16 budget but language in the document indicates cuts on the order of 10 percent. The administration also calls for AHRQ to be consolidated within the NIH. 

See also FY18 Statistical Agency Budget Developments, FY17 NIH, NSF, AHRQ, and FDA Budget Developments, and the July Amstat News article, FY17 Federal Budget Resolved; Trump’s FY18 Budget Request Released. 

¹FY14 and FY15 levels are Program levels. FY15 NIH level includes Ebola funding. The levels also includes $150 million for Mandatory Type 1 Diabetes Research and $77.3 million for Interior Budget Authority.  
² AHRQ request consolidates AHRQ within NIH: "

The Budget consolidates the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality into NIH and maintains $272 million in discretionary funding for these activities. As part of this consolidation, NIH will conduct a review of health services research across NIH and develop a strategy to ensure that the highest priority health services research is conducted and made available across the Federal Government. The consolidation proposal preserves key activities, such as patient safety research, that improve the quality and safety of American health care. The Budget reduces or eliminates lower-priority programs that overlap with activities administered by other components of HHS.

" The House LaborHHS-Ed, "directs AHRQ to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Public Administration to conduct a study and make recommendations for how the Federal government should best manage this important research, including the optimal organizational location and means of avoiding unnecessary overlap with other stakeholders."
Latest Action: ^*Subcommittee mark-up; ^**Committee mark-up; ^***Passed the Floor 

See also these reports on the FY18 budget request:

• COSSA's in-depth analysis of the FY 2018 budget request
• COSSA's analysis of the FY18 preliminary details
• Trump’s budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research, Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 3/26/17.
• Trump Seeks Dramatic Funding Cuts to Science, AIP FYI, 3/16/2017
• Trump Science Budget: Agency-by-Agency Analysis, AIP FYI, 3/16/2017
• Trump budget would slash science programmes across government, Nature, 5/23/17
• Science gets little love in Trump spending plan, Science, 5/26/17
• How Trump’s science cuts could hurt states that voted for him, Nature, 5/17/23

Reports on Congressional Consideration of FY18 budgets

• FASEB Inside (the beltway) scoop, 6/9/18. 
• NSF Director Córdova Pressed on Consequences of Proposed Budget Cuts, AIP FYI, 6/12/17.

• NSF offers arm’s-length defense of Trump’s 2018 request, Jeffrey Mervis, ScienceInsider, 6/8/17.

• House bill gives NIH 3% raise, blocks cuts to overhead payments, Jocelyn Kaiser,  ScienceInsider, 7/12/17.

For the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences the FY13, FY14, FY15, FY16 and FY17 Request numbers are

1. America First A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again, 3/16/2017
2. FY18 numbers inserted from leaked White House FY18 budget spreadsheet, 5/21/17
3. House CJS press release, 6/28/17
4. House Ag approps draft bill press release, 6/28/17.
5. House LHHS approps draft bill for NIH, 7/7/17
6. Senate LHHS press release, 9/7/17 and LHHS report language for NIH and AHRQ
7. March Omnibus
   1. Div B for NSF
   2. Div H for NIH and AHRQ

See also:

• FY17 Federal Budget Resolved; Trump’s FY18 Budget Request Released, Amstat News, July 2017. 
• FY17 Statistical Agency Budget Developments, an ASA Community blog entry
• FY17 NIH, NSF and AHRQ Budget Developments, an ASA Community blog entry
• Final FY16 Spending Bill Provides Increases for NIH, Census, Statistical Agencies, Amstat News, February 2016. 
• FY16 NSF and NIH Budget Developments, an ASA Community blog entry
• FY16 Statistical Agency Budget Developments, an ASA Community blog entry
• FY16 Budget Request Position NIH, NSF, and Federal Statistical Agencies Well for Congressional Deliberations, Amstat News, April 2015.
• FY15 Budgets for NIH, NSF, Federal Statistical Agencies Finalized, Amstat News, February 2015.

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