"Officials appointed by the new president started firing thousands of researchers and other government employees. At the same time, it cut billions of dollars of US support for global-health programmes, including dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID). It arrested some scholars from outside the United States as it stepped up efforts to restrict entry into the country and limit political speech."
""The Trump administration is committed to cutting taxpayer funding of left-wing pet projects that are masquerading as 'scientific research' and restoring the American people's confidence in our scientific and public-health bodies that was lost during the COVID era," White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement to Nature."
In the first weeks of a second presidential term, the administration fired thousands of researchers and government employees. It cut billions from US global-health programmes and dismantled USAID, arrested some foreign scholars, and tightened entry and political-speech restrictions. The government withheld federal research funding to exert control over universities, cancelling tens of billions in grants to force policies on hiring, admissions, campus policing, and curricula. The administration framed these moves as necessary to improve science and innovation and to cut taxpayer funding of left-wing projects. Other observers interpret the measures as an effort to politicize science and suppress independent analysis.
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