The Hill: National Science Foundation’s future in limbo as Trump eyes cuts. “The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation.”

"I think a lot of people around the country would find [it] a bit crazy, actually, that just as... people are really feeling the sharp end of climate change through these extreme events, there's been a bit of a walking back from investing in the science."

"We've lost about 700 people across the science system in the last couple of years in terms of cuts," she said.

"We're losing institutional knowledge, we're losing connectivity, we're losing networks of researchers... once it's gone, it takes years and decades to get it back."

Researchers were unlikely to come back into the system "because there's nothing to come back to".

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/592164/extreme-weather-scientists-warn-of-impending-funding-drought

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