The gutting of American science funding isn’t a big enough story in our news and it should be.
It significantly reduces American innovation and economic competitiveness in the near-term and long-term and it isn’t even being done efficiently, if that were in fact the goal.
I mean I’m sure it’s a victim of the “flood the zone” strategy, but this is going to hurt people in big ways.
This is bad.
Trump cuts roil National Science Foundation, alarming researchers:
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5371720/national-science-foundation-budget-grant-cuts-turmoil