Trump Administration Proposes Eliminating Duration of Status for International Students
In late August, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new rule concerning how long three classifications of nonimmigrants—F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and I (representatives of foreign media)—can legally stay in the U.S. This proposed change has …
Federal Agencies Submit Plans for Gold Standard Science
Responding to guidance from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), federal agencies have submitted plans for complying with the May 23, 2025 Executive Order (EO) on Restoring Gold Standard Science. (See previous FABBS article.) Initially, agencies …
Trump Politicizes Federal Grantmaking in New Executive Order
On August 7, the White House issued an executive order (EO) claiming to improve oversight of federal grantmaking, but experts are deeply concerned that the actual impact would dramatically politicize grantmaking and undermine the U.S. scientific enterprise. The EO hands …
NASEM Restructuring and New Committee on Research Administrative Burden
While created to advise the U.S. government, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) is not a federal agency. However, it is heavily dependent on federal funding. Drastic reductions in funding to the National Science Foundation (NSF), National …
Court Orders NIH to Restore Terminated Grants
On Monday, June 16, a federal judge ruled that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) must immediately restore approximately 400 grants that had been abruptly terminated by the Trump administration. The suit challenged NIH’s decision-making process for determining ‘scientific merit’ …
NIH Employees Call for Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence in the Bethesda Declaration
On June 9, more than 300 current and former employees from every institute and center (IC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) signed and published the Bethesda Declaration to protest the Trump Administration’s politicization of science and science funding …
