#fundingcuts — Public Fediverse posts

New York Times: Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress. “The extraordinary move — holding back about one-fifth of the N.S.F.’s primary research budget — is the latest sign of how the Trump administration is finding creative ways to work around Congress. Lawmakers from both parties have consistently opposed White House-led proposals to cut funding to major […]

New York Times: After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea. “Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.”

Kansas Reflector: Kansas Legislature’s budget cuts compel Fort Hays State University to close Sternberg Museum. “[Fort Hays State University president Tisa] Mason said in a 1,500-word statement that Fort Hays State received a $2.4 million reduction in state funding during the 2026 session. In addition, the Legislature requested FHSU assess how it would slash administrative costs by 10%. The […]

UNICEF: Millions of Latin American Children at Risk from El Niño | Ratopati

Kathmandu. Millions of children in Latin America are at high risk of severe drought and floods stemming from…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #children #climatechange #drought #elnino #floods #foodsecurity #fundingcuts #hurricanes #Latinamerica #malnutrition #NaturalDisaster #pacificocean #UNICEF #wateraccess #wildfires
https://www.europesays.com/3280746/

https://www.europesays.com/3280746/ UNICEF: Millions of Latin American Children at Risk from El Niño | Ratopati #children #ClimateChange #Conflicts #drought #ElNino #floods #FoodSecurity #FundingCuts #hurricanes #LatinAmerica #malnutrition #NaturalDisaster #PacificOcean #UNICEF #WaterAccess #wildfires

https://www.europesays.com/africa/449805/ Refugees in Uganda are turning food assistance into farms, trades, and savings #DRCHumanitarianCrisis #FundingCuts #Refugees #Uganda #Women'sEmpowerment

Museums Journal: Museum leaders call for ‘transformation, not incremental change’. “Museum leaders are seeking ‘transformation, not incremental change’, according to a report published this week by Arts Council England (ACE). The Museums Overview 2026 found that England’s museums face “severe financial pressures”, along with workforce shortages and increasingly unsustainable approaches to […]

Newton Beacon: Historic Newton’s federal textile archive grant has been restored, for now. “Historic Newton’s $135,000 in federal grant money, previously rescinded by the Trump administration, has now been reinstated. This means that their project to sort and better catalog their textile collection can now proceed as it was before.”

The Guardian: Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet. “As reading and math scores fall to their lowest point in the past quarter-century, the US now has fewer tools to understand and develop interventions for this troubling trend. When the Trump administration took a wrecking ball to the Department of Education last year, firing nearly half […]

States United Democracy Center: New “Lost Funds” Tool Documents $177 Billion in Federal Funding Disrupted by Trump Administration Across All 50 States. “The States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness today launched Lost Funds, an interactive tracker that provides a holistic look at the federal grants that have been canceled, frozen, delayed, or otherwise interrupted since Trump took […]

Science: White House move to seize control of NIH grant decisions upsets senators and scientists. “Biomedical researchers are on edge after news broke over the weekend that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) director clashed with President Donald Trump over a White House plan to turn over the agency’s final grant decisions to a new board co-chaired by Trump’s budget chief, Russell […]

Radio Free Europe: Yale Tracking Of Ukrainian Children Taken By Russia At Risk As US Reshapes $25M Program. “Researchers at Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab working to track Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia and Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine could see their positions eliminated by December unless new funding is secured, the lab’s executive director told […]

Louisiana Illuminator: America’s air monitors are disappearing, along with the power to expose polluters. “Over recent decades, federal funding for public air monitoring has declined, the number of monitors has fallen, and much of the remaining equipment is aging or located far from major polluters. Now, the stakes are rising: Wildfire smoke is reaching more communities, data centers are […]

Colorado Sun: New evidence shows Boulder climate lab was dismantled in act of political reprisal, lawsuit alleges. “New evidence shows overt political retaliation against Colorado is behind the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Center for Atmospheric Research lab in Boulder, according to new filings in a lawsuit by the lab’s university consortium managers.”

https://www.europesays.com/africa/417007/ Scale Doesn’t Belong (Only) to Government (SSIR) #BigBets #Business #Ethiopia #FundingCuts #GlobalDevelopment #Government #Nonprofits&NGOs #partnership #Scaling #Sectors #SocialEnterprise #solutions

Reuters: Trump administration threatens to cut federal agencies’ support for Smithsonian. “President Donald Trump’s administration has threatened to cut federal agencies’ ‌support for the Smithsonian, marking its latest escalation against the institution.”

Denver Post: US Forest Service closing 23 research facilities as part of reorganization under Trump. “The U.S. Forest Service is closing 23 research stations in more than a dozen states as part of an organizational overhaul under President Donald Trump that is intended to trim costs and concentrate the agency’s resources in Western states, officials said Thursday.”

Nature: Revealed: inside the US military’s plan to tap huge sums from the NIH. “The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking to redirect research projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars from its infectious-diseases institute to military biodefence programmes at the US Department of Defense (DOD), according to two NIH employees. They confirmed to Nature that the NIH and the DOD, […]

Trump’s Funding Cuts and Their Impact on the U.S. Healthcare System

📰 Original title: How Trump's funding cuts are reshaping the health system

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#politics #healthcare #fundingcuts

"The luxury of understanding..."

#science #fundingcuts #luxury

@feather1952

Having dealt with these absolute arseholes, may I suggest:

If it's progressive, get an occupational therapist's report that says his condition is worse.

Lodge a change of circumstances form asking for reassessment.

No promises. We've done this for my wife. Several times, now.

The first O/T report said she needed more.

NDIS gave her less, and later admitted they hadn't even read the recommendations on the last page of the report!

#NDIS #FundingChange #FundingCuts

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325159

#HackerNews #federalfunding #researchkeywords #fundingcuts #academicresearch

Cutbacks in global aid could spark HIV epidemic resurgence – Winnipeg Sun

Cutbacks in global aid could spark HIV epidemic resurgence  Winnipeg SunAlberta doctor coalition aims to tackle growing HIV numbers  Edmonton…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AIDS #CA #Canada #Fundingcuts #GlobalHealth #HIV #infectiousdisease
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/852065/

So, I've been downloading #GBLTQ resources and historical documents (including #QueerTalk, a radio show on #WMPG hosted by one of my first friends after I moved to #Maine). Why am I doing this? Because I don't trust #Trump and fiends to be in charge of public university archives. I'll be uploading those precious digital records to the @internetarchive soon. So grateful IA are there to be an independent repository of #History and #Culture! 📚 🎧 🎥

#PreservingCulture #PreservingHistory #InternetArchive #FundingCuts #MemoryHole #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #LGBTQ #QueerHistory

LiveScience: ‘We’re trying this out of frustration’: Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts. “A team of UCLA scientists has resorted to posting content on OnlyFans to raise money for research amid huge federal funding cuts to U.S. science. But the videos aren’t of themselves, they’re exclusive recordings of marmots.”

Cal Matters: White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants. “Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump administration’s priorities.”

Tom’s Hardware: Germany’s massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world’s largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media. “The Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), a German effort to assemble the world’s largest publicly accessible video game archive, is being wound down after […]

KPBS: California school libraries blindsided by ‘catastrophic’ budget cut. “Without notice to schools or librarians, the Legislature last week canceled $5.5 million that pays online fees for the Encyclopedia Britannica, New York Times, PBS videos such as Ken Burns documentaries, scientific journals and thousands of other online materials used by students and teachers. The cut goes into […]

Ars Technica: Trump’s plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors. “Last August, Trump created the National Design Studio, or NDS, by executive order. A temporary DOGE-like entity that answers only to the president, NDS was tasked with creating new standards to update the US Web Design System (USWDS) and overhaul 27,000 dot-gov websites in just three years…. Most people […]

Gizmodo: Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. “Before the cuts, the NWS was launching weather balloons twice per day (once in the morning and once in the evening) from 100 locations. Today, the number of morning launches in the Lower 48 has been reduced by half, according to MyRadar senior meteorologist Matthew Cappucci.”

American Library Association: American Library Association launches national advocacy campaign to fight FCC attack on library funding. “The American Library Association (ALA), along with Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition partners, announced a national advocacy campaign today after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to advance a proposal that asks whether the […]

The Sun: Calif. stops funding police transparency database . “California will stop funding a state-wide database intended to uncover police misconduct and use-of-force records, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s chief fiscal policy advisors confirmed to The Center Square.”

JMIR Publications: The Future of Online Misinformation Research: Tackling the Landscape With Integrity and Urgency. “Since early 2025, the scientific research and funding landscape has faced tremendous changes and challenges in the United States. In this News and Perspectives article, health communication scholar, former program official of the National Cancer Institute, and JMIR Correspondent […]

CNN: Trump administration ditches plan to close a critical ocean monitoring system after furious bipartisan backlash. “The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring system that provides vital information on the health of the world’s oceans, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. The Ocean Observatories Initiative was established […]