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Witnesses and members say recent pauses and agency actions have sown uncertainty across federal research programs
Summary
Multiple committee members and witnesses described recent administration actions—grant freezes, personnel changes and instructions to screen grants for certain terms—as creating immediate uncertainty for researchers, early-career scientists and university programs.
Members and witnesses at the hearing repeatedly raised concern about recent executive-branch actions that paused or reviewed federally funded research.
Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren warned in her opening that the committee was holding a hearing about U.S. leadership “while the new administration is actively and with unprecedented speed and ferocity, apparently seeking to tear down and undermine some of the very scientific foundations.” She described pauses that caused “research across The United States” to be put on hold and said the uncertainty prompted researchers to wonder whether they could “pay their graduate…
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