General Discussion

There has also been far too little attention on what the cuts at NSF, NIH, DOE Department of Science, and other criminal impoundments of funds already allocated are doing to science.

One of my clients is the Director of the UW Molecular Engineering Materials Center. He is struggling find the funds to pay grad students already in the program and is unlikely to be able make offers to any new students in the foreseeable future. Their work is major cutting edge stuff and the students in that program are our future. The cuts have affected other acquaintances across departments at the University of Washington, and studies are finding massive brain drain -- not just from the cuts and impoundments, but from the insane attack on foreign students. We are looking at loses that CAN NEVER be replaced. We cannot get these years of training back, just as the losses in education during COVID will never be fully recovered. We can move forward and try to rebuild, but the U.S. is losing people and programs that would have paid dividends in the future.