Explain the Trump administration's plan regarding National Science Foundation research grants and criticize the administration's stance on basic research. Also, describe the importance of basic research and how it may be negatively impacted by budget cuts.
The Trump administration is also looking to deeply cut National Science Foundation research grants. Those grants go for basic research into fundamentals of mathematics, physics and the natural sciences, and are the major source of such grants, since the results of basic research aren't immediately profitable, thus little to no private funding. You ought to know this, since presumably you got your foundational science knowledge from professors who received NSF grants for basic research. Are you contemptuous of basic research? That would fit you in with 95% of Republicans, Trump and the Bushes, and 99% of evangelical Christians. Also, you fit in with almost all the ignorant people posting here. The annual budget for this crucial research needed to keep pace with China, Russia and Europe, is 7.7 billion. A single F-35 fighter jet costs 990 billion. Science is the best defense. Trump wants to cut satellite funding needed for weather observation. Anti-science is for stupid people.