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Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request to Congress

As released on May 2, 2025, the President’s FY2026 Discretionary Budget Request of $3.9 billion for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment in which NSF prioritizes investments that can have the greatest national impact.

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