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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
Trump Jan 2025 Executive Order Signing
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  • Second Trump presidency begins
  • Biden tightens export controls before exit
  • Fermilab director abruptly resigns
WEEK OF JAN 21, 2025
Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright, left, and OMB director nominee Russell Vought
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  • Energy secretary nominee testifies
  • Anti-harassment guidelines finalized by White House
  • JPL staff devastated by fires
WEEK OF JAN 13, 2025
An orientation sign for new members of Congress.
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  • New Congress convenes
  • Trump compliments H-1B program amid high-skill immigration debate
  • CHIPS R&D facility announced
WEEK OF JAN 07, 2025
Michael Kratsios sits at a laptop during a web conference for the Greek Economic Summit.
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  • Nominees for OSTP director and DOD R&D chief announced
  • FY25 budget deadline extended to March
  • Major visa updates
WEEK OF DEC 23, 2024

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