Michael Kratsios

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Michael Kratsios: Trump's Science Agenda, Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

So after New Golden Age was released, on the same day, actually, Russ Vogt, who's the OMB director, the budget director, and myself, we wrote our annual RD priorities memo.

And in that memo, we essentially list out kind of what are the priorities of administration and how individual agencies should write their budgets to map to those research priorities.

And kind of first and foremost, on the very first page,

Who talk about the importance of basic fundamental research?

And I think those are the things that you mentioned.

And I think that memo kind of serves as the policy of the United States on how agencies like NSF should be prioritizing those things.

So I'm excited to see us go in that direction.

And kind of, as you say, keep reminding the world, there is an insane amount of capital going into RD, really into AI out in the private sector.

We should be thinking about the stuff that only the US government can fund, and that is that sort of basic research.

Totally.

So the first implementation document is this RD priorities memo.

So this is a memo that goes out to the White House, that is it goes out to the agencies that essentially tells them these are the budget priority areas and practices that you need to implement going forward.

And the top five research agencies, those with over $3 billion in RD, have a report due back to us 90 days after the publication on how they're gonna be doing implementation.

You've already started seeing announcements from the agencies on how they're implementing the report.

You had an X Labs announcement coming out of National Science Foundation to sort of fund these focused research organizations.

NSF also put out an announcement around four-year PhDs that are done in partnership with industry.

So people can graduate out of the PhD program and then go into industry much, much more quickly.

Um and I think these are the programs we're gonna be seeing across across our agencies.

I think the second piece is gonna be actually working with Congress on the appropriations to make sure that sort of they're aligned with the directions of of of new golden age.

But I would just stay tuned.

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