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Will US science survive Trump 2.0?

President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts for the United States and the world?
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  1. Jeff Tollefson
  2. Dan Garisto
  3. Heidi Ledford
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Grey text on a dark background listing the titles of many research grants. Some phrases are highlighted in red, white and blue such as pandemic prevention, public health and tropical cyclones. The word cancelled is superimposed in big black letters.

A selection of research grants that have been cancelled by the Trump administration. Sources: NASA grants: Casey Dreier (go.nature.com/44TVTKA); NIH/NSF grants: Noam Ross and Scott Delaney (go.nature.com/3GQDENL and go.nature.com/42RKBYD)

In just the first three months of his second term, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. His administration has fired thousands of government scientists, bringing large swathes of the country’s research to a standstill and halting many clinical trials. It has threatened to slash billions in funding from US research universities and has terminated more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and HIV prevention.

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Nature 641, 26-30 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01295-6

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