Policy & Advocacy

This congressionally-mandated, data-rich report (released biannually) summarizes the patterns in US science R&D and workforce development, as well as the impacts of federal STEM funding.

The FY 2027 President’s Budget proposes to expand multi-year funding to 100 percent of all new awards, dramatically reducing the number of new, promising scientific applications that NIH can fund.

The Trump administration finalized regulations Thursday that will put in place new loan limits for post-baccalaureate degree programs, which could potentially limit college access for hundreds of thousands of students and weaken pipelines for several high-demand professions.

The National Science Board was created in 1950 to advise the president and Congress on science and engineering policy, approve major funding awards, and guide NSF’s future.

FASEB, of which GSA is a member, expressed serious concerns over the NSB dismissal and its detrimental effects on the National Science Foundation.

This resource from NSF covers operating status and changes to how proposals submitted to NSF-BIO are reviewed.

For NIH, the budget requests $41 billion—a nearly $6 billion or 12 percent cut—in FY 2027 for NIH’s research, and it proposes reforms to the agency with the elimination of the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Fogarty Center, and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

Notably, within the Fiscal Policy Notice was the new language regarding multiyear funding that limits the agency’s ability to issue multiyear awards “not to exceed the amount of funds made available…during fiscal year 2025.”

Robert Aderholt, Chair, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing with the NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya to discuss a number of issues following up from NIH’s activities in 2025.

Per a STAT survey, the impacts of the Trump administration’s seismic changes to science funding are intensifying, causing researchers to drastically scale back the ambition of their work and driving some to shut down their labs entirely.

The collective voice of the scientific community is a powerful tool. Help GSA advocate for science policy and funding.