The President's Budget and Me
The President released his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2012 this morning. It may not mean much since we don't yet have a budget for this year. However, the New York Times has a nice chart showing how the administration is proposing to spend our tax money.
The part of the budget that affects me most directly is the Department of Energy because a grant from that Dept. pays my celery salary, and it provides most of the funding for the experiments on which I work. It is marked "ENERGY" in the lower right hand portion of the Times chart. More specifically the budge of High Energy Physics, the subfield in which I work, receives a small increase, as you can see in Slide 24 of Secretary of Energy Steven Chu's presentation of the proposal.
Secretary Chu's FY 2012 Budget Briefing
