Michael Kratsios

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623 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 24 Aug

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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

And to me, that's a question.

But the more important question that every scientist should be asking is: is the way that the US government spends a $200 billion in ST funding every year, is it actually driving the best break?

Breakthroughs and biggest breakthroughs of American people.

Are there other ways that you could be deploying that capital in different to different organizations, to different scientists, uh through different time horizons?

There's so many questions we should be asking, which we're not.

And that is what uh Science New Golden Age tries to bring to the front.

Yeah, I think the most important thing that people should initially sort of table set is that there's a distinction between a proposed budget and the uh dollars that are appropriated by Congress.

So Congress controls the purse strings.

They're the ones who say how much science funding there will be, and they've consistently continued to fund science over the last decade plus.

But I think, you know, the the the more sort of policy question to think about.

is, and the way I view it is spending more money on the wrong types of things is not the right policy action.

to me, I think

To me, I think the best example is the National Science Foundation.

And for some of the listeners, the NSF is essentially the premier funder of extramural basic research in the United States.

So we have about $8 to $9 billion a year, where most of that money is uh given to academics at universities who do research on all sorts of basic science domains.

Senator Ted Cruz and the committee on uh at on in in the Senate did did an analysis of the grants that were given during the Biden administration.

And they found that roughly one quarter or 25% of grants at NSF during that time period went towards DEI-related quote-unquote science.

And if you think about that, that's an astronomical amount.

That is roughly $2 billion a year times four years.

That's eight billion dollars of.

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