In his first eight months of office, the second Trump administration has overseen the firing or buyout of more than a quarter-million employees, and cut out at least $36 billion in science funding, according to a dataset compiled by Scienceline. The science funding deficit is set to reach $163 billion by 2026, with institutions ranging from the Weather Service to the National Parks seeing their funding cut. Researchers, citizen scientists, and science communicators across the US are now havin...
