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The Trump Administration released its FY19 budget request February 12, 2018. I will be filling in information as I become aware of it. This blog entry will track FY19 appropriations developments for NIH, NSF, AHRQ, and NIH and so will be updated accordingly. (See log updates below.)  Note that the FY18 budgets are not expected to be finalized until March 23 so that column remains empty in the table below. Links to the FY18 budgets developments are just above table 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 FY19 Request
• Reports on Congressional Consideration of FY19 budgets
• NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Table
• Update log

See also FY19 Statistical Agency Budget Developments and the FY 2019 R&D Appropriations Dashboard. 

¹FY14, FY15, FY16, FY17, & FY19 request 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.  The FY19 request includes funding for three agencies, including AHRQ, that are proposed to be absorbed into NIH. 
² AHRQ request consolidates AHRQ within NIH as it did in FY18 request with the following language: "

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."
³The FDA levels use the discretionary funds budget authority, which differ from program levels. For more on the FDA budget please see https://strengthenfda.org/.  
Latest Action: ^*Subcommittee mark-up; ^**Committee mark-up; ^***Passed the Floor 

See also these reports on the FY19 budget request:

• NIH stays flat, absorbs three institutes in president’s 2019 budget proposal, Science Insider, 2/12/18. 
• First take: Trump’s 2019 budget not as disastrous for science as it first appears, Science Insider, 2/12/18. 
• Trump rescinds planned 29% budget cut at NSF, Science Insider, 2/12/18. 
• COSSA ANALYSIS President’s FY 2019 Budget Request SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE 

Reports on Congressional Consideration of FY19 budgets

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

1. 2/12/18: FY19 Analytical Perspectives
2. 2/13/18: NIH Budget Authority levels, https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/fy-2019-budget-in-brief.pdf
3. 5/9/18: House draft FY19 CJS bill, for NSF.
4. 6/14: House approps committee press release for NIH
5. 6/29: Senate LHHS report for NIH, AHRQ
6. 10/5: final levels for NIH and AHRQ
7. 2/15/19: https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SOM%20FY19%20Consolidated%20Appropriations%20Act.pdf

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
• See other ASA Science Policy blog entries. For ASA science policy updates, follow @ASA_SciPol on Twitter.