28/04/2026
🚨Without this independent group of qualified experts in the various fields of science, nearly $9 billion of funding for the National Science Foundation will be allocated by Trump’s best interests instead of the advice of qualified scientists.
🔥As a reminder, Trump’s administration has been consistently anti-science as they deny vaccine efficacy, diminish the need for renewable energy sources, and eagerly decimate our wild spaces for profit with no concern for the ecosystem being destroyed.
⚖️They are confirmed to staggered six-year terms so that scientific research priorities are set by the long arc of scientific progress rather than the election cycle.
💰To members of the committee, this did not come as a surprise, only a disappointment. Trump administration proposed two years in a row to cut the NSF budget by more than half.
Sources: Journal of Nature, Scientific American, AP News