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Paul Tonko: “I am concerned that the 2018 budget proposed by President Trump includes an 11 percent cut, as we heard earlier, to NSF…”

On the recordOctober 23, 2017
I am concerned that the 2018 budget proposed by President Trump includes an 11 percent cut, as we heard earlier, to NSF, a 6.6 percent cut to quantum information science at NIST, and a 16 percent cut to DOE's Basic Energy Sciences program.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko expresses concern over proposed budget cuts affecting quantum research funding.

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