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An analysis found that NSF grant funding remained about level in the recently ended fiscal year.<\/p>\n
The National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health doled out about as much total grant funding in the recently ended fiscal year as they did the year before, despite the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cunprecedented\u201d earlier slowdown of federal science funding, Science<\/em> reported Wednesday. <\/p>\n According to the journal\u2019s <\/strong>analysis, \u201cNSF committed approximately $8.17\u00a0billion to grants, fellowships, and other funding mechanisms in the 2025 fiscal year\u201d\u2014which ended Sept.\u00a030\u2014\u201cabout the same as in 2024.\u201d It found that NIH spending also remained level. <\/p>\n But both federal research funding agencies still reduced the number of new grants they awarded, Science <\/em>reported. It wrote that NSF funded about 8,800 new research project grants, down from 11,000 in 2024, adding that an anonymous NSF staffer said this \u201cwas one of several changes designed to reduce the agency\u2019s future financial obligations, in case Trump\u2019s proposed budget cut is realized.\u201d The analysis also found that the agency reduced from 2,600 to 1,100 \u201cthe number of new continuing grants, and \u2018forward funded\u2019 a number of existing continuing grants.\u201d<\/p>\n NSF declined to confirm or deny Science<\/em>\u2019s figures. NIH spokespeople didn\u2019t return Inside Higher Ed<\/em>\u2019s requests for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n Congress has yet to decide how much to fund NSF in the current fiscal year; most of the federal government is currently funded by a continuing resolution that expires Jan. 30, and the government could shut down again if lawmakers don\u2019t pass appropriations bills by then. But Republicans from both chambers have indicated they don\u2019t plan to cut $5\u00a0billion from NSF, as Trump has requested; in July, Senate appropriators put forth a cut of only $16\u00a0million, while the suggestion in the House was to slash the NSF budget by $2\u00a0billion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An analysis found that NSF grant funding remained about level in the recently ended fiscal year. The National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health doled out about as much total grant funding in the recently ended fiscal year as they did the year before, despite the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cunprecedented\u201d earlier slowdown of federal science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[211,13376,116,405,4694,14036,8670],"class_list":{"0":"post-34887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-didnt","9":"tag-fiscal","10":"tag-funding","11":"tag-nih","12":"tag-nsf","13":"tag-plunge","14":"tag-total"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}