Impacts of Federal Policy Actions on Research

By Micah Altman & Philip Cohen

Altman and Cohen argue that the Trump administration’s budget cuts and political interference are dismantling the scientific community, threatening research independence and America’s capacity for innovation

Published in The Hill on July 26th, 2025

By Marc Coutanche

Coutanche writes about the need to prioritize science over politics, comparing DOGE's cuts to research to the Soviet Union's politicization of science during the Cold War

Published in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on June 25th, 2025

By Leah Horowitz

Horowitz argues that cuts to university research funding, once a source of U.S. global leadership and innovation, now hurt national health, economy, and international standing.

Published in The Capital Times on June 21st, 2025

By Jenny Bratburd

Bratburd warns that the Trump administration’s cuts to environmental and health data programs will have dangerous consequences for public health, both in Wisconsin and nationwide.

Published in The Capital Times on May 30th, 2025

By Mayank Chugh and Jonny Coates

Chugh and Coates argue that open science is key to protecting U.S. research from political threats, budget cuts, and data suppression.

Published in The Scientist on May 21st, 2025

By Julia Lund

Lund warns that without urgent funding, proven community-based violence intervention programs in California risk collapse due to federal grant cancellations and state funding shortfalls.

Published in Los Angeles Daily News on May 20th, 2025

By Daniel C. Semenza

Semenza argues that a recent drop in homicide rates is the direct result of deliberate investments in policy, research, and community-led strategies that are now being undermined.

Published in Common Dreams on May 5th, 2025

By Nina Christie

Christie writes about her work organizing a local Stand Up For Science rally to state that communities need to come together to support the many people working to advance scientific knowledge.  

Published in The Albuquerque Journal on April 18th, 2025

By Fernando Tormos-Aponte

Tormos-Aponte urges scientists to resist political interference by building collective power, drawing lessons from environmental justice and other social movements.

Published in Nature on April 8th, 2025

By Judith Scott-Clayton

Scott-Clayton’s grant was abruptly terminated mid-study, cutting short a nearly complete evaluation of Federal Work-Study just as findings were emerging.

Published in Inside Higher Ed as part of the “Grant Terminated” series on April 7th, 2025 

By Rob Blair, Jessica Gottlieb, Laura Paler and Julie Anne Weaver

The Democratic Erosion Consortium lost funding mid-grant for their global work on democratic backsliding, dismantling a key bridge between research and policy.

Published in Inside Higher Ed as part of the “Grant Terminated” series on April 7th, 2025

By Matthew Woodruff

Woodruff’s lab made vital discoveries on long Covid, but NIH funding was cut mid-commitment, putting the lab’s future at risk.

Published in Inside Higher Ed as part of the “Grant Terminated” series on April 7th, 2025 

By Denise L. Baer

Baer outlines how a women’s empowerment project with bipartisan backing that lost funding, despite its origins under the Trump administration.

Published in Inside Higher Ed as part of the “Grant Terminated” series on April 7th, 2025 

By Ken Kolb

Kolb defends the role of scientific research in public life and criticizes efforts to politicize and defund it at both the state and federal level.

Published in The Post and Courier on February 27th, 2025

By Eva Warren

Warren recounts how a federal gag order abruptly halted her NIH training, illustrating the real-world stakes of science policy rollbacks for public health and state economies.

Published in Akron Beacon Journal on February 6th, 2025