President Donald Trump’s top budget and science advisers are looking to redirect the federal government’s vast scientific enterprise toward his administration’s goals, including advancing artificial intelligence and achieving “energy dominance.”
The Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy detailed in a memo released Tuesday the president’s priorities on research and development for the fiscal 2027 budget. Agencies should focus on “targeted, transformational investments” in areas such as quantum science, nuclear energy and space exploration that are “unapologetically in service of the American people.”
OMB Director Russ Vought and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, both of whom signed the memo, also took issue with past spending on diversity efforts, saying it encumbered federal research.
“Following years of unfocused Federal investments weighed down by woke ideology and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, we are realigning the Federal R&D portfolio to serve its core purposes,” Vought and Kratsios said in the memo.
