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The new document — titled “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again”
In my opinion, this may be the only route that ME research funding might be preserved but I wouldn't hold my breath. I don't know the legal technicalities of it but given that the recently announced RFAs won't be awarded for a while yet, I wouldn't be surprised if that makes them an easy target for defunding.The Trump budget blueprint does not explain why NIH has been targeted for such a huge reduction, but calls for a “major reorganization” to focus on “highest priority research.”
In my opinion, this may be the only route that ME research funding might be preserved but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Hopefully you are right @Cheesus . Maybe this is an attempt at negotiations by Trump, perhaps it'll end up as "support Trumpcare and I won't call for these funding cuts", that wouldn't surprise me.
Make an extreme demand. Negotiate. Agree on a decreased demand, or force through an alternative that you wanted but were not sure you were going to get. Then claim you are the good guy in all this.Hopefully you are right @Cheesus . Maybe this is an attempt at negotiations by Trump, perhaps it'll end up as "support Trumpcare and I won't call for these funding cuts", that wouldn't surprise me.
Barrow-boy tactics.Make an extreme demand. Negotiate. Agree on a decreased demand, or force through an alternative that you wanted but were not sure you were going to get. Then claim you are the good guy in all this.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/16/trump-budget-science-research/Trump’s budget proposal, which is slim on details, is just a blueprint; the details will be negotiated with Congress, and top Republicans have already made clear that they’re not on board with all the cuts. Just this month, Representative Tom Cole, who chairs a key appropriations committee, told STAT he hoped to boost NIH funding by as much as $2 billion this year. (The agency got its first significant budget hike in years, of $2 billion, in late 2015.)
And within hours of the blueprint’s release, Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who has also called for increasing NIH spending, issued a statement calling the president’s plan just the “first step” in a long a process. “There are many concerns with non-defense discretionary cuts,” Blunt said.
*Bully-boy tacticsBarrow-boy tactics.
Off the top of my head I can think of several that they could afford to lose20%? How many BPS proponents does the NIH employ?
We should claim there is a link between male pattern baldness and ME. We could double our funding base overnight.
A Trump card."Cheesus is going to go bald and he has ME, so there must be a link"
I think we have a solid case.