{"id":3955,"date":"2012-10-08T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2012-10-08T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:54:17","slug":"the-dire-consequences-of-federal-sequestration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"The Dire Consequences of Federal Sequestration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1120\" title=\"US Capitol\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"US Capitol\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In addition to state legislative issues, PROFS also watches federal issues as they relate to the university. Right now, PROFS is talking with the Wisconsin congressional delegation about how a possible federal sequestration (the reduction of federal funding to reduce the deficit)\u00a0could have devastating consequences for UW-Madison. The <a href=\"http:\/\/rules.house.gov\/Media\/file\/PDF_112_1\/Floor_Text\/DEBT_016_xml.pdf\">Budget Control Act of 2011<\/a> solved the debt-ceiling crisis in August 2011 but will force $1.2 trillion across-the-board budget cuts in January unless Congress acts before then.<\/p>\n<p>Research funding would be hard hit. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\">American Association for the Advancement of Scienc<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\">e (AAAS)<\/a> estimates that R &amp; D funding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/spp\/rd\/fy2013\/SeqBrief.pdf\">could be cut<\/a> by $57.5 billion over 5 years, a cut of 8.4 percent. Non-defense spending comprises $21.9 billion of the total. \u00a0Cuts in 2013 are estimated to be $2.5 billion at the National Institutes of Health and $571 million at the National Science Foundation. These cuts have enormous implications for the country&#8217;s research institutions, including UW-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>PROFS will continue to closely follow this issue and keep faculty informed as we get closer to the January deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to state legislative issues, PROFS also watches federal issues as they relate to the university. Right now, PROFS is talking with the Wisconsin congressional delegation about how a possible federal sequestration (the reduction of federal funding to reduce&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3955\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","tag-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}