"A year ago, federal support for scientific research appeared to be crumbling. But thanks to Congress and several lawsuits, scientists’ worst fears haven’t come to pass."
"About a year ago, it seemed the sky was falling for American scientific research.
The Trump administration last February cut thousands of workers at federal science agencies, squeezed the flow of grant money to universities and tried to slash funding for the overhead costs of research. In the months that followed, it targeted elite universities over allegations of antisemitism; clawed back grants on topics it saw as related to diversity, equity and inclusion; and proposed a budget with drastic cuts to agencies like NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
To many, science appeared under assault. The model the federal government had used to outsource research to universities since World War II seemed to be collapsing.
“That partnership is now being broken,” Holden Thorp, the editor of the Science journals, wrote last February, describing some of the cuts as an “unforeseen and immediate hit” and a “betrayal of a partnership that has enabled American innovation and progress.”
But a year later, the worst of those fears hasn’t come to pass, thanks to several successful legal challenges and Congress’ recent rejection of many of President Donald Trump’s requested cuts for this year."
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