US CONGRESS has passed its 2018 spending bill, which included the largest research budget increases in nearly a decade.
It also clarified that the US Centers for Disease Control can study the causes of gun violence under the 1996 鈥淒ickey amendment鈥�. The wording of this rule 鈥� intended to prevent the CDC from doing research that promoted gun control 鈥� has been hard to interpret. But no dedicated funds for gun research were announced.
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The bill was passed on 23 March, the day before hundreds of thousands of people rallied across the US for tighter gun laws (pictured).
NASA, the National Institutes of 午夜福利1000集合 and the National Science Foundation all got increased budgets, as did climate and clean energy programmes at the Department of Energy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 budget remained level, contrary to the vast cuts President Donald Trump had suggested.
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