Collection

2018 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Miriam Quintal; Otto Katt

enable major funding increases for both defense and non-defense agencies – Most research agencies are continuing business as usualBUT, Challenges and Vulnerabilities Remain:• Congressional brinkmanship threatens progress on FY 2018 spending and other potential areas of agreement• FY 2019 budget request expected to severely cut key agencies and programs – continued F&A threat• Loss of career staff could hollow out agency abilities and responsiveness over next several years.• Worrisome views of higher education also emerging: – Caricatures of universities as unaffordable, elitist, not worth it, too liberal – Efforts to cut student aid or increase regulation around free speech and sexual assault – Attacks on US graduate student support and