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  • Trump orders political review of grants
  • NASEM starts fast-track study on GHG impacts
  • GAO finds NIH has illegally slowed spending
WEEK OF AUG 11, 2025
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  • DOE gives platform to skeptics of climate change impacts
  • UCLA hit with grant cuts
  • Congress departs without deal on nominees
WEEK OF AUG 04, 2025
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  • National labs brace for layoffs
  • NSF and NASA staff protest treatment under Trump
  • NIH and DOD budget proposals advancing in Senate
WEEK OF JUL 28, 2025
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) at a hearing in April 2025.
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  • Science budgets advancing in Congress
  • Top appropriators look to block indirect cost caps
  • NSF board to meet
WEEK OF JUL 21, 2025
House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee Chair Hal Rogers (R-KY) speaks at a hearing in June 2025.
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  • Congress considering science cuts
  • NIH to cap publishing fees
  • DOD research picks announced
WEEK OF JUL 14, 2025
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  • DOE redirects FY25 money to favored programs
  • Senate begins advancing FY26 science budget proposals
  • NOAA nominees testify
WEEK OF JUL 07, 2025
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  • NSF booted from its HQ
  • DOD, Commerce detail major proposed science cuts
  • $150M for DOE AI R&D added to Senate reconciliation bill
WEEK OF JUN 30, 2025
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  • Judge restores NIH grants
  • Senate Republicans advance tax policy changes
  • House examines post-quantum cryptography
WEEK OF JUN 23, 2025
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  • Chinese student visas part of trade negotiations
  • NSF budget targeted for clawbacks
  • NIH does 540° turn on anti-DEI policy
WEEK OF JUN 16, 2025
A tethered balloon flight at one of the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement observatories.
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  • Science budget details emerging
  • NASA in the mix for Senate reconciliation bill
  • Trump issues new travel ban
WEEK OF JUN 09, 2025
A rendering of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope, which NSF has declined to advance to the agency’s final design phase.
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  • NSF and NASA detail proposed budget cuts
  • DOE begins axing major projects
  • State Department dissolving multiple S&T offices
WEEK OF JUN 02, 2025
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  • Trump issues order on ‘Gold Standard Science’
  • Agencies tighten screws on Harvard
  • House sets schedule for FY26 budget bills
WEEK OF MAY 27, 2025