His administration is suddenly reversing course after a federal judge ruled that the mass firings of probationary workers were probably illegal.

About a quarter worked inside groups central to deploying NSF funding for AI research, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg.The wave of layoffs pushed by the Trump administration, combined with looming budget cuts,

Despite court orders blocking Trump’s federal funding freeze, bans on DEI and other executive mandates, academic researchers are still in the dark on what all of it could mean for their careers and the pace of scientific discovery.

Trump’s war on DEI comes for programs helping autistic students find jobs in STEM - Programs meant to help autistic students study science have been caught in the Trump administration’s war on DEI, Er

Following President Trump’s congressional address lambasting the landmark Biden administration bill, Democrats sounded off on Monday in its defense.

The overhaul of US science kicked off within hours of Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, when he signed dozens of executive orders, which are presidential directives on how the government should operate inside existing laws. The Trump White House did not respond to Nature ’s request for comment.

Nature talks with scientists inside US agencies about what the latest directive could mean for their staff members and budgets.

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally made it clear to Congress that he wants to kill the CHIPS and Science Act—a $280 billion bipartisan law Joe Biden signed in 2022 to bring more semiconductor manufacturing into the US and put the country at the forefront of research and innovation.

Senator Ted Cruz has released a database of more than 3,400 National Science Foundation grants he believes push “a far-left ideology.” Free speech advocates and researchers say it’s a scare tactic that undermines scientific inquiry.