The budget requested for the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) in 2023 was $1.15 billion.
That’s a very large fraction of the nation’s total investment in graduate students, researcher salaries, infrastructure, and services for research about computing.
$44 billion of Elonbucks could have permanently altered the structure and dynamics of computing research in this country.
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