BIDEN CALLS FOR BOOSTS TO US SCIENCE SPENDING TO STAY COMPETITIVE

In particular, the National Science Foundation (NSF) would see its budget increase by nearly 19%, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science - a big investor in the physical sciences - would see an increase of nearly 9% (see 'Biden's budget requests for science in 2024'). "The public-health system has been so underfunded for so long that the truth of the matter is, it's going to take a fair amount of money to make that right, but it's a step in the right direction," he says. Furthermore, the budget would provide $24 billion to help US communities prepare for the rising impacts of climate change, and another $7 billion to help communities that depend on oil, gas and coal extraction to tran-sition to clean energy.