NSF diverted $1.4 billion Congress intended for research
🧪 “The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
Paul Kingsley19Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the Science, Space and Technology Committee: “It’s a dramatic attack on the science enterprise that has served us very well since World War II, when this whole system was set up”
Corporate Pravda has appropriated your thought and response.1CN dwarfs US R&D arguably by TWO oom. GOP support US corporate oligarchs. Tech bros believe AI the whole solution. AI invention will not have the ability to transform into innovation due to unavailable material production capability, R&D diversity & corporate self-interest preventing innov. e.g. PV.
Chris Geidner171Congrats, Don, John, Mike, and John, you broke it.
Katie Wilkinson3As someone with a grant that was rated high priority (top bin) that wasn't funded this year, I'm appalled that NSF withheld 1/5th of their budget. @liccardo.house.gov @lofgren.house.gov
Bryn Nelson3Again, this is brazen theft. Money already appropriated for research.
