He just talks about "Science" in general. He didn't mention any particular "Science".

If it's "Science" to study the sleep habits of the Southwest Land Tortoise, or maybe curing the common Cold?

That may be "nice to have", but when we're $37 trillion in debt, is it "have to have"?

I wonder sometimes about all the money spent to cure Cancer. Where the hell does all that money actually GO? How many people are working on that, and what the hell are they doing all day long?

Just throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at "Science" is no longer a luxury we can afford.