It's now the National Science Foundation's Turn

A couple of months ago, the Department of Energy started the Genesis project, which is essentially a money grab by the tech companies to take money out of basic science and put it into AI. Now the NSF is following suite ( [https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-15b-nsf-x-labs-initiative-pursue-generational](https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-15b-nsf-x-labs-initiative-pursue-generational) ) and taking money for basic science to give to the very same companies. With the hit to the NIH, we are rapidly destroying our ability to do science in the US. It may be that if the Democrats take Congress they can push the agencies into bringing it back, but things are very dire. With grant cycles at 3 years, if nothing is done during the Trump Presidency, there will be very few young scientists left.

One aspect of this that is especially problematic is that some institutions have the resources to weather the storm a bit longer. These are places like MIT or Yale. A lot of research had been done at institutions all across the country and will not be available. In a way, this impacts the red states more, but it is a dark day for science.