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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
The New York Times • • business
Key Points:
- President Trump’s science adviser, Michael Kratsios, announced plans to overhaul U.S. scientific research by shifting funding from universities to individual researchers and private companies, with a focus on artificial intelligence, robotics, and nuclear energy.
- The administration intends to reduce emphasis on life sciences, arguing that the current approach has slowed transformational breakthroughs.
- Democrats criticized the administration for undermining scientific research through staff cuts at federal agencies, funding reductions, grant cancellations, and policies driving top researchers abroad.
- Representative Zoe Lofgren accused the administration of damaging the U.S. science enterprise, suggesting the changes could benefit China’s scientific progress instead.
- The White House report, titled “Science: A New Golden Age,” is described as the first major rethinking of U.S. science policy since Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report, which established the traditional government-university-private sector research model.
