The threat of substantial budget cuts for science agencies looms large after congressional committee’s failure to reach a deal.
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US Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts speaking at a meeting of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction in September.
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The failure, however unsurprising, of the US Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to accomplish its goals has set up a troubling scenario for federally funded research. Across-the-board cuts to all discretionary federal spending, beginning in 2013, are becoming increasingly probable. Such cuts would affect all of the major US research agencies, which last year received some US$60 billion in funding. With many details still to emerge, Nature considers the implications of the committee’s impasse.
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