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The Department of Energy headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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  • DOE caps indirect costs
  • Trump poised to seek massive science cuts in 2026 budget
  • More university research frozen
WEEK OF APR 14, 2025
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  • Top DOE and NASA nominees testify
  • Scientists challenge grant terminations in court
  • Lawmakers examine Chinese AI models
WEEK OF APR 07, 2025
One of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic bases.
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  • Trump zeros out NSF construction budget
  • Grant terminations proliferate
  • More NIH layoffs planned
WEEK OF MAR 31, 2025
Pages from a questionnaire the Office of Management and Budget sent to international research partners.
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  • Scientists abroad alarmed by Trump survey
  • French scientist denied US entry
  • Europe looks to recruit US scientists
WEEK OF MAR 24, 2025
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  • Probationary employees reinstated
  • Government shutdown averted
  • NASA authorization bill reintroduced
WEEK OF MAR 17, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson returns to the Capitol after a meeting at the White House in late February.
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  • Congress scrambles to strike budget deal
  • RIFs begin at NASA
  • NIH terminating grants that clash with Trump priorities
WEEK OF MAR 10, 2025
Protesters gathered outside NOAA’s headquarters in Maryland on March 3 to protest the Trump administration’s treatment of the agency.
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  • NSF reinstating probationary employees after court order
  • Status of NOAA and NIST layoffs unclear
  • NIH nominee faces Senate
WEEK OF MAR 03, 2025
Books placed in the lobby of the National Science Foundation to protest the Trump administration laying off 168 of the agency’s employees on Feb. 18.
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  • Agencies brace for more layoffs
  • OSTP nominee testifies
  • US science leaders pitch policy ideas to Trump administration
WEEK OF FEB 24, 2025
An empty lab at the National Institutes of Health.
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  • Thousands fired across science agencies
  • Congress probing DOE lab security
  • Cruz presses case against DEI in NSF grants
WEEK OF FEB 18, 2025
A building on NIH’s campus in Maryland.
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  • NIH sued over move to cut indirect costs
  • More DOE and Commerce nominees named
  • DOE lab directors to testify
WEEK OF FEB 10, 2025
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  • NSF grant payments unfrozen but reviews continue
  • Science Committee resumes work
  • Commerce nominee vows to keep NOAA intact
WEEK OF FEB 03, 2025
White House AI and cryptocurrency czar David Sacks watches President Donald Trump sign an executive order on Jan. 23.
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  • PCAST reestablished
  • Agency leadership changes continue
  • Research security policy eyed by foreign relations panel
WEEK OF JAN 27, 2025

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