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San Sussein Collins (R-Men) launched a hearing on Wednesday, criticizing the Trump administration for cutting science financing, dismissing federal scientists, and mobilizing policy uncertainty, which he said was the basis for US leadership.
The chair of the Senate Customs Committee, Collins, said the sudden cancellation of the administration’s grant and not justifying scientists is very little or justified. “These measures put our leadership into a real risk in biomedical innovation and should be overturned,” he said.
Its warnings came when the American University of the University of Macro Economic and Policy Analysis published a study on Wednesday that a major lack of federal financing for scientific research could make economic losses equal to a major recession.
In the first 100 days of Trump 2.0The administration has fired 1,300 employees from the National Institutes of Health, which is the largest fundraising fundraiser in the world, and has canceled more than $ 2 billion in federal research grants.
Earlier this week, the administration rejected all the scientists and other writers working on the next authentic look at how the climate change was affecting the United States.
In a similar cutback, the Trump administration snatched about $ 4 million in federal funds from Princeton’s Climate Department of Research, as it has determined that Princeton’s work is not in accordance with the goals of the national maritime and environmental administration (NOAA).
The White House said Princeon’s research on topics, including sea level rise, coastal floods, and global warming, promoted “exaggerated and irreversible climate risks.” US Department of Trade Press Release Funding deductions were explained earlier this month.
It is expected that the White House will propose an additional reduction in discretionary costs as part of the annual budget process. Federal agencies like the NIH and the National Science Foundation are involved in the fundamental and implemented scientific research of funding.
StudyFrom a group of American University economists, the department is among the first people to run the initial economic estimate of the Trump administration’s deduction in public spending and public spending on science.