{"id":174783,"date":"2026-01-05T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/lawmakers-boost-funding-for-nist-after-proposed-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:55:13","slug":"lawmakers-boost-funding-for-nist-after-proposed-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/lawmakers-boost-funding-for-nist-after-proposed-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers boost funding for NIST after proposed cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/01\/lawmakers-boost-funding-for-nist-after-proposed-cuts\/\">Lawmakers boost funding for NIST after proposed cuts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/01\/lawmakers-boost-funding-for-nist-after-proposed-cuts\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/01\/lawmakers-boost-funding-for-nist-after-proposed-cuts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-05 18:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>House and Senate lawmakers rejected the Trump administration&#8217;s proposed cuts to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), opting to instead increase funding in key areas.<\/li>\n<li>The new appropriations agreement provides $1.8 billion for NIST, an increase over the Trump administration&#8217;s proposed funding levels.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement allocates $1.25 billion for NIST\u2019s research and services division, significantly more than the administration&#8217;s request.<\/li>\n<li>NIST\u2019s \u201cCommunity Project Funding,\u201d or earmarks, will receive $405 million in funding, contrary to the White House&#8217;s proposal to phase it out.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement maintains funding for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program, against the Trump administration&#8217;s proposal to defund it, with strong language forbidding any revision without explicit approval from committees.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement includes $55 million for NIST\u2019s AI research and measurement efforts, with an additional $10 million to expand its Center for AI Standards and Innovation.<\/li>\n<li>The funding package also includes $128 million in base construction funding to repair and upgrade major research facilities at NIST\u2019s main campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers boost funding for NIST after proposed cuts https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/01\/lawmakers-boost-funding-for-nist-after-proposed-cuts\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-05 18:44:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RET_PR_313782-e1609514586380.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174785,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174783\/revisions\/174785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}