U.S. government science funding programs will see their budgets cut by 8.2% in 2013 unless Congress agrees on a plan to trim budget deficits by the start of the new year.
Under this plan, National Institutes of Health (NIH), authorized spending would drop by more than $2.5 billion, to about $28.3 billion.
The result will be closing down of many labs, loss of jobs and decrease in medical research.
We pledge the Obama Administration to stop federal cuts and increase the budget of NIH.