Congressional budgeting will be in the neighborhood of $21 billion above the Presidential request, which is likely to trigger a veto. As a result, the author of the AAAS analysis expects that the budget will not be done by the October 1 deadline.
Of that extra $21 billion, about $4 billion is targeted for federal R&D, bringing the total to $144 billion. That represents an increase of about 2.3 percent compared to fiscal 2007; draft bills in the Senate would add another half billion to the figure.
