Sorry, my husband keeps using up my gift links, but I’ll excerpt a couple of paragraphs.
Since January, the Trump administration has made deep cuts to the nation’s science funding, including more than $1 billion in grants to the National Science Foundation, which sponsors much of the basic research at universities and federal laboratories, and $4.5 billion to the National Institutes of Health. Thousands of jobs for scientists and staff members have been terminated or frozen at these and other federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Park Service.
Next year looks to be worse. The 2026 budget proposed by the White House would slash the National Science Foundation by 56.9 percent, the N.I.H. by 39.3 percent and NASA by 24.3 percent, including 47.3 percent of the agency’s science-research budget. It would entirely eliminate the U.S. Geological Survey’s $299 million budget for ecosystems research; all U.S. Forest Service research ($300 million) and, at NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, all funding ($625 million) for research on climate, habitat conservation and air chemistry and for studying ocean, coastal and Great Lakes environments. The Trump administration has also proposed shutting down NASA and NOAA satellites that researchers and governments around the world rely on for forecasting weather and natural disasters.
NASA’s budget for 2026 has been reduced [again] by 25%. This budget is the smallest since NASA launched the first manned space flight in the 1961.
NASA’s science work force will be reduced by 2/3rds. More than 40 proposed missions have been dropped or indefinitely postponed.
Funding for aeronautics research (new hybrid propulsions technologies), aeronautic design, earth science, oceanography, climate science, exploratory space projects, astrophysics, and planetary science has been terminated. A planned fly by/landing on asteroid passing close to Earth 2029 has been cancelled.
Additionally, more than 4000 staff members who were civil service employees have left. (Fired/trasferred or took voluntary buyouts to prevent being fired.) There are now fewer civilians working at NASA than at any other time in its history. Most contract employees have also left.
NASA’s Goddard Space Center in Maryland, home to “the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists,” according to its website, may close as early as next year.
Here is a link to a Canadian government site that is (I think) not behind a pay wall:
The difference between $1.2billion stated above and $1.7billion stated on the canada.ca web site is just the exchange rate difference between the Canadian dollar and the US dollar.
for the excerpts.