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Trump's Second Term Is Reshaping US Science
Essay Unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes are causing fundamental shifts in scientific research and outcomes. Unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes are causing fundamental shifts in scientific research and outcomes. Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news.
Kenneth M. Evans
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Trump’s second term reshaping U.S. science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes
Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. research and innovation has remained remarkably stable, reflecting the American public’s strong support for investing in basic science. In his first year back in office, President Donald Trump’s relentless attempts to overhaul the federal support system for research and development has put science policy back above the fold.
Trump’s Second Term Is Reshaping U.S. Science with Unprecedented Cuts and Destabilizing Policy Changes
TARGETING SCIENCETrump’s Second Term Is Reshaping U.S. Science with Unprecedented Cuts and Destabilizing Policy Changes Published 18 December 2025 President Donald Trump is far from the first president to be deeply skeptical of the academic research community. But his relentless attempts to overhaul the federal support system for research and development have set a new precedent for the level of mutual distrust and its consequences for scientists.
Mutually Assured Distrust and the Gyrations of Trump's Science Policy
Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. research and innovation has remained remarkably stable, reflecting the American public’s strong support for investing in basic science. In his first year back in office, President Donald Trump’s relentless attempts to overhaul the federal support system for research and development has put science policy back above the fold.
Trump’s second term is reshaping US science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. research and innovation has remained remarkably stable, reflecting the American public’s strong support for investing in basic science.
Trump’s second term is reshaping US science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes Original
Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding for U.S. research and innovation has remained remarkably stable, reflecting the American public’s strong support for investing in basic science. In his first year back in office, President Donald Trump’s relentless attempts to overhaul the federal support system for research and development has put science policy back above the fold.
All government shutdowns disrupt science
In 2025, the stakes are higher than in past shutdowns. With the shutdown entering its fifth week, and with no end in sight, the Trump administration’s rapid and contentious changes to federal research policy are rewriting the social contract between the U.S. government and research universities – where the government provides funding and autonomy in exchange for the promise of downstream public benefits. Funding freezes, data gaps and unpaid workers Extended shutdowns accelerate the damage.
All govt shutdowns disrupt science, consequences extend far beyond lapse in funding
With scientists and program officers at home, activities at the nearly two dozen federal agencies participating in research and development, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, come to a halt US science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home without pay.
All Government Shutdowns Disrupt Science-in 2025, the Consequences Extend Far Beyond a Lapse in Funding
US science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home without pay. Federal agencies suspend new grant opportunities, place expert review panels on hold, and stop collecting and analyzing critical public datasets that tell us about the economy, the environment, and public health. In 2025, the stakes are higher than in past shutdowns.
Disruption to science will last longer than the US government shutdown
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All government shutdowns disrupt science − in 2025, the consequences extend far beyond a lapse in funding Original
U.S. science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home without pay. Federal agencies suspend new grant opportunities, place expert review panels on hold, and stop collecting and analyzing critical public datasets that tell us about the economy, the environment and public health. In 2025, the stakes are higher than in past shutdowns.
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy provides in-house science advice for the president Original
Presidents need science advice. From climate change and pandemics to the governance of AI and the country’s nuclear arsenal, science sits at the center of a range of foreign and domestic policy challenges that reach the president’s desk. Thankfully for the president – and the nation – the Office of Science and Technology Policy, known as OSTP, is just across the White House South Lawn in the Executive Office of the President.
Split on science spending, Trump & Harris agree on tech war
On September 10, 2024, for the first time in American history, quantum computing was mentioned by a candidate during a presidential debate. After Vice President Kamala Harris brought up quantum technology, she and former President Donald Trump went on to have a heated back-and-forth about American chipmaking and China’s rise in semiconductor manufacturing. Science and technology policy usually take a back seat to issues such as immigration, the economy and health care during election season.
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