This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.

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Trump still works for Putin.
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Trump is hollowing out America's future. Cuts to NASA science, NOAA research, and NIH grants do not just hit labs. They weaken medicine, forecasting, innovation, and the talent pipeline the next generation depends on. #Science #Research #Innovation
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Why though? I don't know the real reason or the fake reason. Who does this even benefit?
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Not the US citizens.
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The USFS research alone is probably small potatoes to many but an absolute killer. They along with USDA have so many continuous projects that are both practical and endlessly fascinating. We’re tossing everything interesting in the heap to become a nation of crypto and DraftKing dorks.
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Scientists like myself will eventually go elsewhere. We'll benefit societies wherever we go. It's our job.
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We used to attract students from other countries to come and benefit from our universities and possibly stay here and benefit our communities.

Someone else will fill the void.
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China is, quite literally, being handed the biggest and easiest W of their lives
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Why????
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I used to chuckle at the "end stage capitalism" theory, but these fuckers just keep plowing ahead....
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It's end stage capitalism without the capitalism.
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I the context of what we get out of it, government investment in scientific research has one of the biggest ROIs out there. What in hell are they thinking?
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It all makes sense if you understand that Trump and his team are compromised and working for Putin. There’s never been a single thing that he’s done in 10 years that goes against this theory.
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260% ROI to be exact
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"They want the US out of R&D out of science research"

Trump slowing the US in every area of leadership. Can't beat us, then slow us down.... and shoot off all the ammo too.

Who benefits? Hmmmm....
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I don't know for sure if Trump is an agent for a hostile foreign power, but I don't know what he would do differently if he was.
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He's a useful idiot.
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He is actively trying to make the lives of Americans worse.
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Yes, and just days after they essentially and effectively pulled the plug on the US forestry service. People should Google it and understand what we're losing as a society. Combine these what they did to CDC, what they did to Health and human services, EPA, NOAA, and on. It's breathtaking.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/dealbook/trump-brain-drain-academia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YVA.z6yl.Unqe_NAUMNcU&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The transformation of our society, of how we live, is so far beyond I think the average person's understanding. It's a massive case study in taking things for granted. National parks, clean water, clean air, safe food, healthy ecology, wetland functions, groundwater.
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I absolutely do not get why. Shouldn't we want to be competitive on the world stage? What is the end goal here?
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Trump works for Putin.
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And Putin wants the US to fail? Is that the plan? I'm legitimately asking because I just do not get why all of this is happening.
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My theory: Libs do science (especially social/behavioral science). End science. Liberal tears.
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Before Trump, science funding generally did better under GOP than Dem administrations.
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Why?
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1. Control universities which are authoritarian opponents
2. Anyone with a PhD is an enemy of the right’s donor class (see Karl Rove circa 2026)
3. COVID/NIH is useful division for votes (also MAHA)
4. Standard destroy-the-govt-to-cut-taxes on the rich Kochism
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The only way something like this budget goes anywhere is if all Republicans sign on to a suicide pact to pass it by reconciliation a month before the election.
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Russia Russia Russia!
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All because taking a second bin to the curb for recycling took too much time away from ignoring their wife and kids.
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I am pretty sure tech/AI broths like Karp or Bezos told them that AI can replace those woke and indoctrinating scientists and get it done faster and cheaper as long as they get the billions that were earmarked for science funds...
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because they’re gleefully ignorant dipshits.
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Did you see the threat here about how cancer survival rates increased over the decades?
Well, it’s because of NIH funded science.
Which now doesn’t happen.
Guess what the consequence will be.
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That's like giving away the "gifts" of future scientific breakthroughs to billionaire oligarchs, Project 2025, and AI enthusiasts to enrich themselves, with no safeguards in place. We'll regret that decision someday. Stupid is as stupid does!
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We had all better regret it in advance forcefully enough to prevent it, as much as possible. Far too much pillage has happened already. #BustBillionaires
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Calm down people — once Trump brings back slavery, we won’t need scientists, right?
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Why? Why are they killing the golden goose? What do they have against R&D? Do they think the private sector is going to fill the gaps?

What is their objective in doing this?
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- Kill universities as they foster free thinking.
- Woke and indoctrinating liberal scientists!
- AI can do it better and cheaper.
- They love the uneducated.
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No one is allowed to be smarter than Trump.
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Oh, we are in trouble!
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Sick. Trump embraces backward behavior and stupidity because he fears information literacy. American people must promote and support science in America.
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Cui Bono? Who's pushing the agenda?
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I think it’s a mix of general right wing anti science plus a big push (strange as it may sound) from the thiel/monopoly tech folks
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Pretty much the same as last year's request.
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He’s a Russian agent. There’s no other explanation.
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Well, don't forget, he's an ignorant moron who has gone bankrupt over and over again.

That's why the Russians supported him, they wanted him to fuck everything up.
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Yup All those explosive middle of the night posts are because he just got off the phone with him..
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What explains this dismantling of all America’s greatest strengths?
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Got to use the money to kill people
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We won’t need any science after Hegseth triggers The Rapture.
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Here’s an hypothesis: Trump fears intelligence. It challenges him and makes him feel real bad.
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He can’t control intelligence or science- so he seeks to destroy it. (Without any self awareness that everything he does, uses, the very power he has inherited as POTUS- has come from either intelligence or science.)
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It continues to amaze me that the Republicans, our 'business-friendly' political party, are shutting off this supply of free research going to our job-makers - It has been a bedrock of our economy since WW2.

Trump has broken the GOP.
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They’d rather benefit from a lawless society to get rich quickly (i.e. make money illegally without penalty) than invest in some future larger payday. It’s the old psychological experiment of a child eating one cookie now because he can’t wait for two cookies later.
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It's extraordinary, when you think about it. Every day, without exception, Trump does something to undermine the country. MAGA really amounts to MAPS, Make America a Piece of S.
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#OnBrand with the fundamental strategy Trump strategy of making America weak for his master Putin and Putin's owner Xi
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Do they think that smart bombs were made by dumb people?
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They know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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They = Putin
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His endgame is literally every tax dollar going to the military. ICE and CBP absorbed by military. Martial law. Nothing else exists.
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United States of Russia. This is planned destruction of the citizens and the economy!
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What was it Miller said about becoming third world?
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