Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has told Congress that he does not support the massive science cuts in his own budget proposal.
The Department of Energy’s proposed budget for the coming year slashes funding for the country’s 17 national labs and for its cutting-edge energy research program — more than halving the budget for the latter.
Under the budget proposal, the DOE’s Office of Science, which funds the large, complex technical facilities used to research the world’s most difficult energy questions, would lose more than $1 billion from its $8 billion budget.