I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science:
For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/politics/national-science-foundation-research-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1E.adOl.I5OvE-oZxF24&smid=nytcore-ios-share
David Ho
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