In the area of science of course. And certainly don’t count your chickens…
But, with that caveat, here are some ideas:
1) Depoliticize earth systems sciences across all agencies.
2) Prepare for the next pandemic (COVID-X) now.
3) Increase the budget of NSF to be able to have an average success rate of 30% (this reflects the excellent science that currently gets left on the “cutting room floor”).
4) Reauthorize the NIH so that the intramural program has the explicit mission of high-risk, high-payoff biomedical research and then fund the Bethesda Campus at approximately 15% of the total NIH budget.
5) Merge PCAST and the NSB into one body with one mission: science and technology advice for the President.
6) Give OSTP a $100M budget to incentivize government cross-cutting activities (e.g. Biden’s Cancer Moonshot).
7) Re-internationalize science–even while understanding that national security interests are a priority.
8) Make climate change a priority while allowing for robust research into safe geo-engineering.
9) Return to the moon and use it as a base for human solar system exploration and astronomy
10) Address sustainable human food and water security for the future.
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