Are you being serious? Are you actually not aware that Elon Musk ran the federal government department tasked with cancelling federal grants and firing government employees in 2025? How is it possible that you are not aware of this?

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WalterBright 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Present some evidence that he cut NSF spending.

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jryan49 3 hours ago | parent [-]

A quick Google search will show you... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/26/nati...

You're just willfully ignorant

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WalterBright 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Asking for evidence is not "willfully ignorant". People making claims have the onus of backing them up. Anyhow, the link to the canceled projects is:

https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/shrFxbl1YTqb3AyOO?jnt...

I looked at maybe a dozen at random, and only one seemed to have anything about scientific research. Of course, that is not a complete survey, but none of them looked important. I'm sure there are a few that are important.

Which one(s) do you think are most important?

	▲	nrr a minute ago \| parent [-]
		I might be biased, but everything under the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the MPS directorate is important. Math is one of those weird fields that tends to touch everything else even if not directly, and it's impossible to know prima facie which areas of research will be useful downstream to the sciences and engineering.