The United States has long led the world in scientific research, a feat that has undergirded the country’s economic and political might. Now researchers are pushing back against a proposed Trump administration rule scientists say would upend the federal funding that drives U.S. science by shifting grantmaking decisions away from independent experts and into the hands of the president’s political allies.
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