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Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation

Trump administration tried to cut](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/national-science-foundation-trumps-cuts) the science foundation’s $9bn budget by more than half last year. Congress maintained NSF’s funding, but a similar slash is again on the table

Scientists see Trump's firing of the National Science Board as an attack on research

Foundation, informing each of its 22 seated members in a terse email on Friday that they had been "terminated, effective immediately." The move follows a Trump administration push for deep cuts

The movie 'Pressure' leans into the drama of high-stakes weather forecasts

Trump administration's efforts to cut staff and delay funding for climate science across every major federal science agency, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA and university-affiliated

President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn

Foundation and National Institutes for Health, the atmosphere on this leafy Seattle campus is tense. [![White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought appears before the House Budget Committee at the U.S. Capitol

Dozens of MPs oppose Streeting’s new power to say what NHS pays for drugs

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (Nice) judgment on how much the NHS should spend on individual medicines. They fear that the change is a “power grab” that undermines the role Nice