Our president is a deeply horrible, shitty human being, but I'm taking some comfort in the fact that he actually has no idea how to negotiate and is completely intellectually lazy and stupid.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/EPA-and-ARPA-E-Funding-Survive-Congressional-Budget-Cuts-For-Now

"The EPA's budget was trimmed by 1%, and ARPA-E actually received a $15 million boost instead of being eliminated, as previously proposed by the Trump administration."