About this, links to 3 articles from Science below:
1. How Trump upended science
A chaotic 100-day push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences
It is almost certainly the most consequential 100 days that scientists in the United States have experienced since the end of World War II.
Since taking his oath of office on 20 January, President Donald Trump has unleashed an unprecedented rapid-fire campaign to remake—some would say demolish—vast swaths of the federal government’s scientific and public health infrastructure. His administration has erased entire agencies that fund research; fired or pushed out thousands of federal workers with technical backgrounds; terminated research and training grants and contracts worth billions of dollars; and banned new government funding for activities it finds offensive, from efforts to diversify the scientific workforce to studies of the health needs of LGBTQ people. The frenetic onslaught has touched nearly every field—from archaeology to zoology, from deep-sea research to deep-space science. And it has left researchers from postdocs to lab heads feeling bewildered, worried—and angry. Many fear that in just 14 weeks, Trump has irreversibly damaged a scientific enterprise that took many decades to build, and has long made the U.S. the envy of the world.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/100-days-that-shook-u-s-science
2. After 100 days of upheaval, what’s next for U.S. science?
Fights over research spending and pending court rulings loom large
With a torrent of executive orders, President Donald Trump has turned U.S. science upside down in his first 100 days, and the onslaught isn’t likely to end soon. Trump shows no sign of backing off his push to shrink the federal science workforce, end programs he considers wasteful or objectionable, and bring universities to heel by canceling their government research grants and contracts. But factors outside the White House could slow or drastically accelerate these efforts in the coming months, as Congress and the courts get a chance to embrace—or push back against—Trump’s science agenda.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-100-days-upheaval-what-s-next-u-s-science
3. NIH under siege
After Trump’s first 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
On a cool, sunny, mid-April day, the cheerful redbuds and other flowering trees amid the sprawling labs on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) main campus belied the pervasive gloom. Nearly 3 months into President Donald Trump’s administration, NIH in-house scientists and other workers were reeling from mass layoffs of colleagues; the removal of leaders; and limits on travel, communication, and purchasing that have shut the agency off from the outside world, hamstrung experiments, and crushed the community’s spirits.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-insiders-trump-dismantling-and-destroying-everything
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