{"id":4771,"date":"2013-02-28T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:51:19","slug":"sequestration-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4771","title":{"rendered":"Sequestration Looms"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3955\">As reported<\/a> last semester, UW-Madison will be affected by the drastic effects of sequestration, which appears imminent. 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, and a temporary agreement was reached in January, but the $1.2  trillion across-the-board budget cut will begin tomorrow unless another last-minute compromise is reached.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at UW-Madison <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/21547\">agree<\/a> there will be a negative outcome of the almost-certain sequester, but it is difficult to predict how the cuts will affect research and personnel on campus.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rhonda Norsetter, UW-Madison&#8217;s director of federal relations, money already awarded would not be taken away, but the university could see $34 million less in federal research grants awarded over the remainder of 2013. The university currently receives about $515 million in federal research money each year.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\">American Association for the Advancement of Scienc<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\">e (AAAS)<\/a> estimated that R &amp; D funding\u00a0<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, which translates into 1,000 fewer research grants, jeopardizing the work of an estimated 12,000 scientists and students.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts will reach Wisconsin students as well.\u00a0The White House <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/docs\/sequester-factsheets\/Wisconsin.pdf\">predicts<\/a> 550 fewer students would receive federal financial aid and 420 fewer students would be eligible for work-study jobs in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported last semester, UW-Madison will be affected by the drastic effects of sequestration, which appears imminent. The Budget Control Act of 2011 solved the debt-ceiling crisis in August 2011, and a temporary agreement was reached in January, but the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4771\">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":[78],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","tag-sequestration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","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=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}