Ranking Member Lofgren Blasts Trump Administration for Short-Sighted Budget Proposal
(Washington, DC) – Today, the Trump White House released its skinny budget. The proposed budget includes major cuts across Science Committee jurisdiction.
"This budget spells disaster for our nation’s science enterprise – and with it, our economic and national security future," said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (CA-18). "The president obviously doesn’t understand that without robust American science, America will lose – plain and simple. For decades, we have worked on a bipartisan basis to strengthen our competitiveness and make the research ecosystem here in the United States the envy of the world. We succeeded in that. Now Donald Trump is rapidly destroying that foundation in a matter of months. In the meantime, China is funneling resources at a pace never seen before. Trump is following a how-to guidebook on how to lose to China. With this unserious budget, that’s exactly what he’ll get and exactly what he’ll be known for. It would take decades to recover from the damage he has already done. Now is the time for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, who have for so long stood alongside Democrats in supporting American innovation, to speak up loudly against this deeply short-sighted proposal. I stand ready to work with them in supporting a winning science budget for our nation."
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