June 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear ESA Member:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Senate Appropriations Committee and its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal government FY26 budget now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Alongside its counterpart in the House, the Senate Committee on Appropriations<\/a> is responsible for federal funding and supplemental spending bills. On Friday, the White House released details of its Fiscal Year 2026 budget request<\/a>, which would slash science funding to levels not seen in decades \u2014 including a 90% cut to the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area, a 72% cut to NSF\u2019s Directorate for Biological Sciences and a halving of NASA\u2019s Earth Science Division, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Call or email your senators and ask for strong funding levels for science agencies. It is especially important if your senator serves on the Appropriations Committee or a Subcommittee<\/a> with responsibility for writing scientific agencies\u2019 appropriations bills.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ESA urges you to WRITE a short message or CALL your senator\u2019s DC Capitol Hill office with a request for robust funding in the science agencies\u2019 appropriations bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We thank you for contacting federal lawmakers to ensure that FY26 appropriation bills provide robust funding for scientific research \u2015 especially for ecological research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks for your consideration, \u201cI am a constituent and ask that Senator [NAME] request full FY 26 funding for the science agencies under their jurisdiction at the current FY 25 budget levels. I am greatly concerned that the President\u2019s Budget Request would devastate our nation\u2019s ability to provide the science that underpins our economy, security and public health. Thank you for your strong support of science in the FY 26 appropriation bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The Senate Appropriations Subcommittees listed below at left fund the scientific agencies listed to the right. Click each subcommittee to see if your senators are among its members.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Call or email your senators and ask for strong funding levels for science agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":16804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1941,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-policy-positions","category-ecology-in-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20840"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20864,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840\/revisions\/20864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
ESA Public Affairs Office<\/p>\n\n\n\nExample Call or Email Script:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Is Your Senator on One of These Appropriations Subcommittees?<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA and Related Agencies<\/a><\/td> USDA AFRI, ARS<\/td><\/tr> Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies<\/a><\/td> NASA, NOAA, NSF<\/td><\/tr> Energy and Water Development<\/a><\/td> DOE Office of Science<\/td><\/tr> Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies<\/a><\/td> BLM, EPA, NPS, USFS, USFWS, USGS<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"