Trump’s Plan to Corrupt American Science

Photo: Bill Nye Speaks at Stand for Science March DC – March 7, 2025. Photo credit: Geoff Livingston via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Robert Kuttner. The American Prospect – July 14, 2026.

Ever since World War II, the American system of peer-reviewed grants to support science has made our great research universities the envy of the world, and has been a key source of commercial innovation as well. President Trump has already substantially weakened that system with a series of cuts and delays in federal research funding, as a way of punishing universities. Now, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, proposes to finish the job. […]

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