Because they're cutting something dumb in favor of funding good science?<p>FWIW, from numbers (the stuff you skipped, I suspect) in the article: a $6B increase over a $19B budget over 5 years comes to about a 5.6% increase per year.  That's just barely above the overall (typical) yearly change in federal revenue.<p>All budgets increase over time, because federal revenue increases due to inflation and GDP growth (itself due to fundamental population increase).  So increasing funding by itself is never news; the news is about changes in what kinds of things are funded.  Thus the headline.