The Cost of Cutting Funding to US Scientific Research
The nonprofit’s tracker says more than 7,800 grants were cancelled or suspended and more than 25,000 federal science workers left.
- The Trump administration proposed cutting the NIH budget from $47 billion to $27 billion—a 40 percent reduction—while more than 7,800 NIH and NSF grants were cancelled or suspended in 2025.
- Administration officials justify these cuts as fiscal discipline to eliminate "waste," but critics describe the systematic reduction as "sabotage," erasing three decades of accumulated research capacity in a single budget cycle.
- A 2025 study found that 383 NIH-funded clinical trials lost funding, affecting more than 74,000 trial participants, while more than 25,000 federal science workers were fired or left through buyout programs.
- MIT President Sally Kornbluth warned that shrinking the pipeline of basic research chokes off future innovations, as at least 85 established scientists joined Chinese institutions in 2024–2025.
- The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation estimates that a 20 percent cut to federal research spending would shrink the United States economy by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade and reduce tax revenue by roughly $250 billion.
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