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US science after a year of Trump (www.nature.com)
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More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies that oversee research. Proposed budget cuts of 35% โ€” amounting to US$32 billion.

These are just a few of the ways in which Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science since returning to the White House last January. As his administration seeks to reshape US research and development, it has substantially scaled back and restricted what science the country pursues and the workforce that runs the federal scientific enterprise.

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[โ€“] TidBit@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

Here's the more detailed but "pay-walled" write-up Nature did that was summarized for the article linked in this post: https://archive.ph/4uHyS