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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
A chart excerpted from DOE's 2026 detailed budget request showing changes in funding between 2024 and 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
Three men in suits stand behind a podium that reads, "HUD's New Home in VA." A sign behind them reads, "The New Golden Age of HUD."
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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
US and China flags
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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
Trump Nuclear Executive Order Signing May 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
Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins 2025.png
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  • Senators mull science cuts
  • NSF pauses RIFs
  • Harvard hit by new grant cuts
WEEK OF MAY 19, 2025
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  • Massive shake-up of NSF begins
  • New batch of S&T nominees announced
  • Ideas for streamlining research regulations pitched to OMB
WEEK OF MAY 12, 2025
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought
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  • Trump proposes slashing science budgets
  • NSB to meet amid funding chaos
  • Publishers to assemble climate research amid NCA upheaval
WEEK OF MAY 05, 2025
A composite image of the NSF website and X posts as well as a crowdsourced database collecting grant terminations.
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  • NSF terminates more grants
  • Republicans propose tens of billions in new defense spending
  • Senate to vote on NASA administrator
WEEK OF APR 28, 2025