How Trump is dismantling America’s scientific research machine

Trump’s “new golden age of American science”: Trump administration policies are weakening US scientific research and threatening the country's technological and military dominance, an NYT investigation finds.

Essential reading: how Russell Vought, RFK Jr., and the whole band of zealots is destroying American science and soft power. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/s...

This article paints a devastating picture of the state of science in Trump's America and it doesn't even account for the serious blow delivered by immigration restrictions. The impact of the disappearing influx of international students and scholars will only become apparent in some years.

Science is under siege. My @nytimes.com colleagues and I are examining how Trump is dismantling the research enterprise. It's not just medical research. Pentagon warns of “potentially grave consequences for the future of national defense.” The first installment: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/s...

After looking at statements by 17 presidents on libraries, an information science scholar found that Trump has broken with a century-old, bipartisan tradition of praising libraries – and dismissed their importance.

NYT article “How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine on Trump” “the system of federally funded science that helped make the United States a global superpower is under intense strain from Trump policies, jeopardizing the nation’s advantages in defense, medicine and technology”

Historian Tim Snyder calls it "superpower suicide": Trump's destroying the rule of law, undermining our standing in the world, and siding with murderous autocrats like Putin. It's also seen in the destruction of American science and medical research. #BozoFascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/s...

Important piece on Trump’s legacy of weakening America: How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/s... via @nytimes.com

First in a series of articles examining how the Trump administration has upended the pursuit of science www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/s...

I criticize this U.S. administration so often & harshly on here that some may think that I hate America. The opposite is true, which is why it hurts me to see 🇺🇸 commit superpower suicide, one atrociously stupid policy at a time.

The U.S. is destabilizing its own scientific infrastructure. "Science is the long game. By the time we no longer win any Nobel Prizes, we will have lost the capacity to ever recover." Disrupting decades of foundational research infrastructure to 'own the libs.'

I think it’s also not well understood, away from places like Bluesky, that destroying science is useful to Trump and movement conservatism because it takes jobs from people who oppose autocracy.

Great NYT reporting on a crisis: “Science is the long game,” said Marcia McNutt, who was president of the National Academy of Sciences, the country’s top scientific advisory body, until this summer. “By the time we no longer win any Nobel Prizes, we will have lost the capacity to ever recover.”

Since January 2025, measles cases have surged to levels not seen in decades. Decades of public health progress are being put at risk by the Trump administration and RFK Jr. We stand with Senator Warnock in defending science, protecting public health, and keeping our communities safe.

Even the agencies working on topics that Mr. Trump and his aides have called priorities — including national defense, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear energy — have been depleted. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/s...