“The current administration’s posture towards science and science funding is a pretty stark departure from prior funding commitments by Republicans to science, according to our research,” Furnas said. Researchers found that when the House of Representatives was controlled by Republicans, Congress appropriated more funding for science and research than when it was controlled by Democrats. Researchers can only speculate on why these new study findings go against the common narrative that Republicans aren’t as interested in funding science. Furnas said it may be because Democrats simply have more things they want to fund in addition to science projects. Because of that, there tends to be more institutions in their very fixed budgets that need funding,” Furnas said.