Under the Biden administration, there have been significant investments made in research, including basic research.
I'll also note that the stipends for graduate students are substantially higher in the United States. The common retort we'll hear to that is of course tuition fees are higher in the United States, but they are actually increasingly shrinking if we look at the public colleges and universities in the United States, rather than also having data that encompasses the private system.
Stipends for post-docs, for example, in the United States are $53,000 a year, whereas they're $45,000 here. That is a pretty significant difference—