{"id":25059,"date":"2025-03-31T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25059"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:26:57","slug":"trumps-science-policies-pose-long-term-risk-economists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25059","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s tariffs could drive up prices. His efforts to reduce the federal work force could increase unemployment. But ask economists which of the administration\u2019s policies they are most concerned about and many point to cuts to federal support for scientific research.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration in recent weeks has canceled or frozen billions of dollars in federal grants<\/a> made to researchers through the National Institutes of Health, and has moved to sharply curtail funding<\/a> for academic medical centers and other institutions. It has also, through the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency, tried to fire hundreds of workers<\/a> at the National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency. And it has revoked the visas<\/a> of hundreds of foreign-born students.<\/p>\n

To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas like artificial intelligence, and to leave Americans as a whole poorer, less healthy and less productive in the decades ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversities are tremendously important engines of innovation,\u201d said Sabrina Howell, a New York University professor who has studied the role of the federal government in supporting innovation. \u201cThis is really killing the goose that lays the golden egg.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Scientists<\/a> have warned that the United States risks losing its status<\/a> as a leader in cutting-edge research and its reputation as a magnet for top scientific minds from around the world.<\/p>\n

Already, labs across the country have begun laying off workers and canceling projects \u2014 in some cases stopping clinical trials<\/a> that were already underway \u2014 and top universities including Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania have announced hiring freezes<\/a>. France and other countries have begun recruiting American scientists<\/a>, promising a more welcoming environment.<\/p>\n

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Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.President Trump\u2019s tariffs could drive up prices. His efforts to reduce the federal work force could increase unemployment. But ask economists which of the administration\u2019s policies they are most concerned about and many point to cuts to federal support for scientific research.The Trump administration in recent weeks has canceled or frozen billions of dollars in federal grants made to researchers through the National Institutes of Health, and has moved to sharply curtail funding for academic medical centers and other institutions. It has also, through the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency, tried to fire hundreds of workers at the National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency. And it has revoked the visas of hundreds of foreign-born students.To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas like artificial intelligence, and to leave Americans as a whole poorer, less healthy and less productive in the decades ahead.\u201cUniversities are tremendously important engines of innovation,\u201d said Sabrina Howell, a New York University professor who has studied the role of the federal government in supporting innovation. \u201cThis is really killing the goose that lays the golden egg.\u201dScientists have warned that the United States risks losing its status as a leader in cutting-edge research and its reputation as a magnet for top scientific minds from around the world.Already, labs across the country have begun laying off workers and canceling projects \u2014 in some cases stopping clinical trials that were already underway \u2014 and top universities including Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania have announced hiring freezes. France and other countries have begun recruiting American scientists, promising a more welcoming environment.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25061,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25062,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions\/25062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}