Science – Bush has not been kind to biomedical research, as this one story of many documents. Under Bush's obsession with funding the Iraq invasion, the U.S. has decidedly lost its lead in biomedical research and with it, opportunities for the future.
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I don't agree with the "Bush War Policies" spin that has nothing to do with the article, which just says the war reduced available funds, but I'll give the the story a vote.
Congress has far more to do with grant funding than the president ever will.
Aside from pork barrel spending, research funding is almost totally in the hands of the Executive branch
The way that funding works is that the President submits a budget and then Congress plays with it a wee bit. In terms of the National Institutes of Health (the primary source of funds for biomedical research), the President perty much dictates what the budget will be.
You are absolutely correct in questioning my assigning the MASSIVE debt of the past seven years to war spending.
People in the know (i.e. Medical School Deans) predict that the fiscal problems of the U.S. (i.e. MASSIVE debt) will cause biomedical research in the U.S. to shrink over the next few years.
You are absolutely correct in questioning my assigning the MASSIVE debt of the past seven years to war spending.
And the President has the power to veto anything passed by Congress.
Also, W has committed the MOST signing statements - little notes beside sections of bills he has signed that say he will NOT abide by those bits - than all other Presidents in the history of this country COMBINED.
And unless the members of Congress can make RIGHT decisions instead of POLITICAL decisions, overrides of vetoes from W are non-existent.
The PROPOSED budgets by W since he has been in office have all been whittling away at domestic spending of EVERY kind - except private contractors - for the last 7 years.